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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 American Railroad Freight Car: From the Wood-Car Era to the Coming of Steel. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0-8018-4404-5. OCLC 26130632. Hinman, Roger C. (2011). Merchant's Despatch; Its Equipment and History. Signature Press, Wilton, CA. ISBN 1-93001-329-9.
Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway (MSTL) Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad (MKT) (also known as the "KATY") [14] Missouri Pacific Railroad (MP) National Transcontinental Railway (NTR) New Orleans and Carrollton Railroad; New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern Railroad; New Orleans & Nashville Railroad – see Uptown New Orleans. New York ...
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.
1795–96 & 1799–1804 or '05 — In 1795, Charles Bulfinch, the architect of Boston's famed State House first employed a temporary funicular railway with specially designed dumper cars to decapitate 'the Tremont's' Beacon Hill summit and begin the decades long land reclamation projects which created most of the real estate in Boston's lower elevations of today from broad mud flats, such as ...
By the beginning of the 20th century Michigan's railroad network covered much of the central and southern Lower Peninsula. The decades after the Civil War witnessed a massive expansion of Michigan's railroad network: in 1865 the state possessed roughly 1,000 miles (1,600 km) of track; by 1890 it had 9,000 miles (14,000 km). These new lines were ...
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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 ...