A refrigerator car (or "reefer") is a refrigerated boxcar (U.S.), a piece of railroad rolling stock designed to carry perishable freight at specific temperatures...
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Peninsular Car Company (subsequently purchased by American Car & Foundry) delivered to Swift the first of these units, and the Swift Refrigerator Line (SRL)...
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retrofitted with bins filled with ice. Detroit's William Davis patented a refrigerator car that employed metal racks to suspend the carcasses above a frozen mixture...
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The St. Louis Refrigerator Car Company (SLRX) was a private refrigerator car line established on February 3, 1878, by Anheuser-Busch, the brewer's first...
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Pacific Fruit Express (category Refrigerator car lines of the United States)
American railroad refrigerator car leasing company headquartered in San Francisco. At one point, it was the largest refrigerator car operator in the world...
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million refrigerated road vehicles in use in 2010 worldwide. Like refrigerator cars, refrigerated trucks differ from simple insulated and ventilated vans...
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Refrigeration (section Refrigerated rail cars)
ice harvesting to temperature-controlled rail cars, refrigerator trucks, and ubiquitous refrigerators and freezers in both stores and homes in many countries...
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streamline the company's refrigerator car operations and achieve vertical integration, Busch established the St. Louis Refrigerator Car Company in 1878, which...
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Hudson River and Maine to fulfill the demand. Ice began to be used in refrigerator cars by the railroad industry, allowing the meat packing industry around...
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high-clearance boxcar Refrigerator car or reefer (US/Canada): refrigerated boxcar for fruits and vegetables. CargoBeamer Coil car: specialized flat or...
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