mechanical refrigerator car

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• Refrigerator car — A refrigerator car (or reefer ) is a refrigerated boxcar, a piece of railroad rolling stock designed to carry perishable freight at specific temperatures. Refrigerator cars differ from simple insulated boxcars and ventilated boxcars (commonly… …   Wikipedia

• Refrigerator truck — A refrigerator truck is a van truck designed to carry perishable freight at specific low temperatures. Like Refrigerator cars, refrigerated trucks differ from simple insulated and ventilated vans (commonly used for transporting fruit), neither of …   Wikipedia

• 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. Between 1924 and 1940 the company acquired more than 3,000 used wood… …   Wikipedia

• Western Refrigerator Line — Two distinct and separate railroad refrigerator car companies have operated under the name Western Refrigerator Line.The first, the Western Refrigerator Line (WRL) was a refrigerator car leasing company founded by the Western Pacific Railroad on… …   Wikipedia

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• Pacific Fruit Express — reporting mark|PFE was a railroad refrigerator car leasing company that at one point was the largest refrigerator car operator in the world. The company was founded on December 7, 1906 as a joint venture between the Union Pacific and Southern… …   Wikipedia

• Boxcar — For other uses, see Boxcar (disambiguation). A Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railway boxcar on display at the Mid Continent Railway Museum in North Freedom, Wisconsin. A boxcar (the North American term; other terms include goods van (UK),… …   Wikipedia

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