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Detail on an American Refrigerator Transit car, 1943. 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. It is now a subsidiary of the Union Pacific Corporation. [1] American Refrigerator Transit Company, 1900–1970:
The Western Refrigerator Line Company (WRX) was established in 1929 to operate a 500-car fleet of reefers for the Green Bay and Western Railroad (GBW). WRX was headquartered at Norwood Yard in Green Bay, Wisconsin until the property was purchased by the GBW in the 1960s.
St. Louis Refrigerator Car Co. #4466, a bunkerless refrigerator car, AAR mechanical designation RB, passes through Limon, Colorado on November 9, 1951. 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 subsidiary.
Insulated wood boxcars such as Union Line #6699, built in 1895, were used to transport dairy products such as milk, cheese, and eggs to market.. 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.
1866: Horticulturist Parker Earle shipped strawberries in iced boxes by rail from southern Illinois to Chicago on the Illinois Central Railroad. 1867: First U.S. refrigerated railroad car patent was issued. [15] 1868: William Davis of Detroit, Michigan developed a refrigerator car cooled by a frozen ice-salt mixture, and patented it in the U.S ...
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1977: Southern Pacific Railroad (SP) came up with the idea of the first double-stack intermodal car in 1977. [13] SP then designed the first car with ACF Industries that same year. [14] [15] 1984: ACF is purchased by Carl Icahn. 1988: Spin-off company American Railcar Industries (ARI) is founded. [16]
Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad: St. Louis, Oak Hill and Carondelet Railway: MP: 1886 1910 Missouri Pacific Railway: St. Louis Railway and Dock Company: St. Louis and St. Joseph Railroad: ATSF: 1868 1874 St. Joseph and St. Louis Railroad: St. Louis, Salem and Arkansas Railway: SLSF: 1887 1897 St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad