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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. [1]

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American Refrigerator Transit Company

The American Refrigerator Transit Company (ART) was a St. Louis, Missouri-based private refrigerator car line established in 1881 by the Missouri Pacific and Wabash railroads.

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Anheuser-Busch

Anheuser-Busch Companies, LLC is an American brewing company headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri.

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Armour Refrigerator Line

The Armour Refrigerator Line (ARL, one of the Armour Car Lines) was a private refrigerator car line established in 1883 by Chicago meat packer Philip Armour, the founder of Armour and Company.

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Bangor and Aroostook Railroad

The Bangor and Aroostook Railroad was a United States railroad company that brought rail service to Aroostook County in northern Maine.

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BNSF Railway

The BNSF Railway Company is the largest freight railroad network in North America, followed by the Union Pacific Railroad (UP) in second place, its primary competitor for Western U.S. freight.

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Boxcar

A boxcar is a North American railroad car that is enclosed and generally used to carry freight.

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Builder's photo

A builder's photo, also called an official photo, is a specific type of photograph that is typically made by rail transport rolling stock manufacturers to show a vehicle that has been newly built or rebuilt.

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Burlington Refrigerator Express

Burlington Refrigerator Express (BREX) was a railroad refrigerator car leasing company that was formed on May 1, 1926 as a joint venture between the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (CB&Q) and the Fruit Growers Express Company.

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Charles M. Prather Barn

The Charles M. Prather Barn, near Kingman, Kansas, was built in about 1938 by Charles M. Prather and local carpenters.

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Chateau de Mores

The Chateau de Mores in Medora, North Dakota, United States, is a historic home built by the Marquis de Mores in 1883 as a hunting lodge and summer home for his family and guests.

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Cold chain

A cold chain or cool chain is a temperature-controlled supply chain.

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Convenience food

Convenience food, or tertiary processed food, is food that is commercially prepared (often through processing) to optimise ease of consumption.

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Convoy (song)

"Convoy" is a 1975 novelty song performed by C. W. McCall (a character co-created and voiced by Bill Fries, along with Chip Davis) that became a number-one song on both the country and pop charts in the US and is listed 98th among Rolling Stone magazine's 100 Greatest Country Songs of All Time.

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Covered hopper

A covered hopper is a railroad freight car designed for carrying dry bulk loads, varying from grain to products such as sand and clay.

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Edwin T. Earl

Edwin T. Earl (1858-1919) was an American businessman, newspaper publisher and philanthropist.

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Eliza Tibbets

Eliza Tibbets (born Eliza Maria Lovell; 1823–1898) was among early American settlers and founders of Riverside, California; she was an activist in Washington, D.C. for progressive social causes, including freedmen's rights and universal suffrage before going to the West Coast.

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Fletcher Stockdale

Fletcher Summerfield Stockdale (c. 1823 – 4 February 1890) was a U.S. politician, lawyer, railroad official and Governor of Texas.

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Florida Railroad Museum

The Florida Railroad Museum is a railroad museum located in Parrish, Florida.

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Food storage

Food storage allows food to be eaten for some time (typically weeks to months) after harvest rather than solely immediately.

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Fred Harvey Company

The Fred Harvey Company was the owner of the Harvey House chain of restaurants, hotels, and other hospitality industry businesses alongside railroads in the western United States.

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Fruit Growers Express

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.

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Fuel cell auxiliary power unit

A fuel cell auxiliary power unit (FC-APU) is a fuel cell based auxiliary power unit on a vehicle that provides energy for functions other than propulsion.

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Glossary of North American railway terms

This page contains a list of terms, jargon, and slang used to varying degrees by railfans and railroad employees in the United States and Canada.

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Glossary of rail transport terms

Rail terminology is a form of technical terminology.

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Green Bay and Western Railroad

The Green Bay and Western Railroad served central Wisconsin for almost 100 years before it was absorbed into the Wisconsin Central in 1993.

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Gustavus Franklin Swift

Gustavus Franklin Swift, Sr. (June 24, 1839 – March 29, 1903) was an American business executive.

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Hamm Brewing Company Beer Depot

The Hamm Brewing Company Beer Depot in East Grand Forks, Minnesota, United States, is a warehouse listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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Hammond Building

The Hammond Building was a high-rise building completed in 1889 at the southeast corner of Griswold Street and West Fort Street in the financial district of downtown Detroit, Michigan directly across Fort Street from the Detroit City Hall.

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Høka

Hønefoss Jernbanevogn- og Karosserifabrikk A/S, trading as Høka and at first known as Hønefoss Karosserifabrikk A/S, was a manufacturer of bodywork for buses, trucks and trains.

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History of Missouri

The history of Missouri begins with settlement of the region by indigenous people during the Paleo-Indian period beginning in about 12,000 BC.

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History of rail transportation in California

The establishment of America's transcontinental rail lines securely linked California to the rest of the country, and the far-reaching transportation systems that grew out of them during the century that followed contributed to the state’s social, political, and economic development.

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History of Riverside, California

Riverside, California, was founded in 1870, and named for its location beside the Santa Ana River.

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History of the hamburger

The Hamburger (also commonly called “burger”) most likely first appeared in the 19th or early 20th century.

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History of the Southern Pacific

The history of the Southern Pacific stretches from 1865 to 1998.

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History of Wells Fargo

This article outlines the history of Wells Fargo & Company from its origins to its merger with Norwest Corporation and beyond.

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Hobo

A hobo is a migrant worker or homeless vagrant, especially one who is impoverished.

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Hormel

Hormel Foods Corporation is an American meat-based food products company based in Austin, Minnesota.

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Ice trade

The ice trade, also known as the frozen water trade, was a 19th-century and early-20th-century industry, centering on the east coast of the United States and Norway, involving the large-scale harvesting, transport and sale of natural ice, and later the making and sale of artificial ice, for domestic consumption and commercial purposes.

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JBS USA

JBS USA Holdings, Inc. is an American food processing company and a wholly owned subsidiary of JBS S.A. (B3:JBSS3), a Brazilian company that is the world's largest processor of fresh beef and pork, with more than US$49 billion in annual sales as of 2017.

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Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company

The Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company was an American brewery based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and once the largest producer of beer in the United States.

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Kriegsbauart

The German term Kriegsbauart (wartime class) refers to railway goods wagon classes that were developed during the Second World War for the Deutsche Reichsbahn.

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List of Bangor and Aroostook Railroad locomotives

The Bangor and Aroostook Railroad (BAR) of northern Maine was at the northeastern tip of the United States rail network.

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List of Mad Men characters

This is a list of fictional characters in the television series Mad Men, all of whom have appeared in multiple episodes.

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List of railway vehicles

This is a list of all types of vehicle that can be used on a railway, either specifically for running on the rails, or for maintenance or up-keep of a railway.

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List of White Pass and Yukon Route locomotives and cars

The White Pass and Yukon Route railroad has had a large variety of locomotives and railroad cars.

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Los Angeles Tribune

The Los Angeles Tribune was the name of three separate newspapers published at different times during the 19th and 20th centuries in Los Angeles, California.

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Marion Station, Maryland

Marion Station, also known as Marion, is an unincorporated community in Somerset County, Maryland, United States.

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Mather Stock Car Company

The Mather Stock Car Company was a U.S. corporation that built railroad rolling stock.

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Merchants Despatch

The Merchants Despatch Transportation Company (MDT, also known as the Merchants Despatch Refrigerator Line) was established in 1857 or 1858 by the American Express Company of New York (then a freight forwarding service).

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Middletown and Hummelstown Railroad

The Middletown and Hummelstown Railroad is a shortline railroad which operates freight and passenger excursion trains in Middletown, Pennsylvania to Hummelstown, Pennsylvania, just outside Hershey, PA and Harrisburg, PA.

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Milk car

Milk cars are a specialized type of railroad car intended to transport raw milk from collection points near dairy farms to a processing creamery.

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Missouri

Missouri is a state in the Midwestern United States.

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National Railroad Museum

The National Railroad Museum is a railroad museum located in Ashwaubenon, Wisconsin, in suburban Green Bay.

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North Powder, Oregon

North Powder is a city in Union County, Oregon, United States.

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North Western Refrigerator Line

The North Western Refrigerator Line (NWX) was a Chicago, Illinois-based private refrigerator car line established in 1924, one of the last such companies to be formed.

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Northern Railroad (New York)

The Northern Railroad was incorporated on May 14, 1845.

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Pacific Coast Railway

The Pacific Coast Railway is a defunct narrow gauge railway on the Central Coast of California.

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Pacific Fruit Express

Pacific Fruit Express was an American railroad refrigerator car leasing company that at one point was the largest refrigerator car operator in the world.

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Packing house

A packing house is a facility where fruit is received and processed prior to distribution to market.

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Passenger car (rail)

A passenger car (known as a coach or carriage in the UK, and also known as a bogie in India) is a piece of railway rolling stock that is designed to carry passengers.

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Pendulum car

The pendulum car was an experimental tilting coach built by the Pacific Railway Equipment Company (PERC) in the early 1940s.

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Philip Danforth Armour

Philip Danforth Armour Sr. (16 May 1832 – 6 January 1901) was an American meatpacking industrialist who founded the Chicago-based firm of Armour & Company.

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Plug door

A plug door is a door designed to seal itself by taking advantage of pressure difference on its two sides and is typically used on aircraft with cabin pressurization.

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Rail freight transport

Rail freight transport is the use of railroads and trains to transport cargo as opposed to human passengers.

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Rail transport

Rail transport is a means of transferring of passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, also known as tracks.

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Railroad car

A railroad car or railcar (American and Canadian English), railway wagon or railway carriage (British English and UIC), also called a train car or train wagon, is a vehicle used for the carrying of cargo or passengers on a rail transport system (a railroad/railway).

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Railway and tramway terminology in Europe

The following tables list railway and tramway terminology as used in different European languages.

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Railway Express Agency

The Railway Express Agency (founded as American Railway Express Agency; later, American Railway Express Inc.) was a national package delivery service that operated in the United States from 1918 to 1975.

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Reefer

Reefer may refer to.

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Reefer City, California

Reefer City is a former settlement in Kern County, California.

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Reefer ship

A reefer ship is a refrigerated cargo ship, typically used to transport perishable commodities which require temperature-controlled transportation, such as fruit, meat, fish, vegetables, dairy products and other foods.

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Refrigerated container

A refrigerated container or reefer is an intermodal container (shipping container) used in intermodal freight transport that is refrigerated for the transportation of temperature sensitive cargo.

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Refrigerated van

A refrigerated van (also called a refrigerated wagon) is a railway goods wagon with cooling equipment.

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Refrigeration

Refrigeration is a process of removing heat from a low-temperature reservoir and transferring it to a high-temperature reservoir.

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Refrigerator truck

A refrigerator truck is a van or truck designed to carry perishable freight at specific temperatures.

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Rolling stock of the South Manchuria Railway

The South Manchuria Railway operated a wide variety of locomotives and powered railcars, as well as non-powered passenger and freight cars, initially of foreign (primarily American) manufacture, but later almost all equipment was manufactured in Japan and Manchukuo.

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Santa Fe Refrigerator Despatch

The Santa Fe Refrigerator Despatch was a railroad refrigerator car line established as a subsidiary of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway in 1884 to carry perishable commodities.

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Seafood

Seafood is any form of sea life regarded as food by humans.

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St. Louis Refrigerator Car Company

The St.

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Stephen A. Gerrard Mansion

The Stephen A. Gerrard Mansion is a historic residence in the North Avondale neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio, United States.

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Stock car (rail)

In railroad terminology, a stock car, cattle car or cattle wagon (British English) is a type of rolling stock used for carrying livestock (not carcasses) to market.

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Swift Refrigerator Line

The Swift Refrigerator Line (SRL, also known as the Swift Refrigerator Transportation Company) was a private refrigerator car line established around 1875 by Chicago meat packer Gustavus Swift, the founder of Swift and Company.

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Taiwan Railways Administration

The Taiwan Railways Administration is an agency of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications of Taiwan responsible for managing, maintaining, and running passenger and freight services on 1097 km of conventional railroad lines in Taiwan.

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Thermo King

Thermo King Corporation, based in the Minneapolis suburb of Bloomington, Minnesota and a unit of Ingersoll Rand, is an American manufacturer of transport temperature control systems for trucks, trailers, shipboard containers and railway cars as well as HVAC systems for bus, shuttle and passenger rail applications.

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Ticket to Ride (board game)

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Timeline of United States inventions (before 1890)

A timeline of United States inventions (before 1890) encompasses the ingenuity and innovative advancements of the United States within a historical context, dating from the Colonial Period to the Gilded Age, which have been achieved by inventors who are either native-born or naturalized citizens of the United States.

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Train

A train is a form of transport consisting of a series of connected vehicles that generally runs along a rail track to transport cargo or passengers.

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Troop sleeper

In United States railroad terminology, a troop sleeper was a railroad passenger car which had been constructed to serve as something of a mobile barracks (essentially, a sleeping car) for transporting troops over distances sufficient to require overnight accommodations.

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Union Refrigerator Transit Line

The Union Refrigerator Transit Line (URT) was a St. Louis, Missouri- and Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based private refrigerator car line established in 1895 by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company.

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Union Stock Yards

The Union Stock Yard & Transit Co., or The Yards, was the meatpacking district in Chicago for more than a century, starting in 1865.

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Victorian Railways iced vans

The Victorian Railways used a variety of air-cooled and iced wagons or refrigerated vans for the transport of all manner of goods.

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Victorian Railways louvre vans

The Victorian Railways used a variety of air-cooled and iced wagons for the transport of all manner of goods.

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West India Fruit and Steamship Company

The West India Fruit and Steamship Company operated a railcar ferry service between the Port of Palm Beach, Florida, and Havana, Cuba, from shortly after World War II until deteriorating relations between the United States and Cuba culminated in the United States embargo against Cuba.

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Western Fruit Express

Western Fruit Express (WFE) was a railroad refrigerator car leasing company formed by the Fruit Growers Express and the Great Northern Railway on July 18, 1923 in order to compete with the Pacific Fruit Express and Santa Fe Refrigerator Despatch in the Western United States.

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Western Refrigerator Line

Two distinct and separate railroad refrigerator car companies have operated under the name Western Refrigerator Line.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refrigerator_car

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