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Icebox. An icebox (also called a cold closet) is a compact non-mechanical refrigerator which was a common early-twentieth-century kitchen appliance before the development of safely powered refrigeration devices. Before the development of electric refrigerators, iceboxes were referred to by the public as "refrigerators".
A modern refrigerator car. The mechanical refrigeration unit is housed behind the grill at the lower right, the car's "A" end. Anheuser-Busch was one of the first companies to transport beer nationwide using railroad refrigerator cars. A refrigerator car (or "reefer") is a refrigerated boxcar (U.S.), a piece of railroad rolling stock designed ...
The company was founded on December 7, 1906 by E.H. Harriman, as a joint venture between the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific railroads. [1] It began operation on October 1, 1907, with a fleet of 6,600 refrigerator cars built by the American Car and Foundry Company (ACF). [2] In the period of 1901-1913, the Pacific Fruit Express was the ...
Fruit Growers Express. Wooden FGE reefer car at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania. Fruit Growers Express ( FGE) was a railroad refrigerator car leasing company that began as a produce-hauling subsidiary of Armour and Company 's private refrigerator car line. Armour controlled both the packing operations and the transport insulated railroad ...
The Santa Fe Refrigerator Despatch ( reporting mark SFRD) was a railroad refrigerator car line established as a subsidiary of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway in 1884 to carry perishable commodities. Though the line started out with a mere 25 ventilated fruit cars and 8 ice-cooled refrigerator cars, by 1910 its roster had swollen to ...
Gibson Appliance. Gibson appliance advertisement, 1948. Gibson was founded by Joshua Hall in Belding, Michigan, in 1877 as the Belding-Hall Company selling cabinets that housed blocks of ice ( ice-boxes ). The area around Belding, Michigan, had a skilled workforce of Danish craftsmen and a good supply of hardwoods including ash.
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