Refrigerator car/Gallery
(PD) Photo: Unknown
A special fast fruit train leaving Central Pacific Railroad passenger station, June 24, 1886. This train was chartered by W. R. Strong & Co. and Edwin T. Earl, fruit packers and shippers, Sacramento.
(PD) Photo: Smithsonian Institution
Union Refrigerator Line refrigerator car #6699, used to transport milk, cheese, and eggs.
(PD) Photo: Lycurgus S. Glover
Rows of reefers in various stages of construction fill MDT's car shop, circa 1905.
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The interior of a typical ice-bunker reefer from the 1920s; the wood sheathing would give way to plywood within twenty years. Vents in the bunker at the end of the car, along with slots in the wood floor racks, allowed cool air to circulate around the contents during transit.
(PD) Photo: Swift Brands
A view of the Swift Brands Sioux City, Iowa meat packing plant, circa 1917. All but one of the refrigerator cars in the photo bear the markings of the Swift Refrigerator Line.
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Pacific Fruit Express #722, an ice-cooled, express-style refrigerator car designed to carry milk in tin-plated steel cans and other highly perishable cargo at the head end of passenger train consists.
© Image: Orange Public Library
A crate label for Hewes' Transcontinental Brand of El Modena, California, circa 1930 depicts a trainload of Pacific Fruit Express (PFE) ventilated refrigerator cars passing near San Francisco Bay.
(PD) Photo: William B. Barry
A Swift refrigerator car has reached the end-of-the-line at East Orange, New Jersey. The car has been repainted and was photographed in mid- or late-1937, after the use of "billboard" advertising on freight cars had been banned by the Interstate Commerce Commission, and such cars could no longer be accepted for interchange between roads.
(CC) Photo: Tom Stolte / TrainWeb.com
A wood-sided refrigerator car of the American Refrigerator Transit Company specially-designated for dairy products, circa 1940.
(CC) Photo: J.S. Sand / TrainWeb.com
Railway Express Agency refrigerator car #6687, a converted WWII Troop Sleeper.
(CC) Photo: J.S. Sand / TrainWeb.com
An REA express reefer is positioned at the head end of Santa Fe train No.8, the Fast Mail, in 1965.
(CC) Photo: Tom Stolte / TrainWeb.com
A westbound intermodal freight train passes through the Cajon Pass, Mile Post 54, in February 1995.
© Photo: Harvey Henkelmann
Tropicana refrigerated box car #250.![(PD) Photo: Garitzko Outside of North America, railroad cars which have been outfitted with cooling equipment (and designated as Class "I" by the International Union of Railways [UIC]) are generally referred to as "refrigerated vans."](/wiki/images/thumb/9/92/Kuehlwagen_Interfrigo.jpg/300px-Kuehlwagen_Interfrigo.jpg)
(PD) Photo: Garitzko
Outside of North America, railroad cars which have been outfitted with cooling equipment (and designated as Class "I" by the International Union of Railways [UIC]) are generally referred to as "refrigerated vans."
© Photo: Soph Marty
An early version of a field icing car loads a Merchants Despatch Transportation Co. reefer (bearing the herald of the GM&O) in Norfolk, Virginia in April 1955.
![(PD) Photo: Garitzko Outside of North America, railroad cars which have been outfitted with cooling equipment (and designated as Class "I" by the International Union of Railways [UIC]) are generally referred to as "refrigerated vans."](/wiki/File:Kuehlwagen_Interfrigo.jpg)
