NEB&W Guide to Refrigerator Cars - Introduction & OverviewThis file is open to website members only
Last Update: 2008-07-30
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There were two components of the development of the freight reefer - the concept that keeping food cool prolongs its freshness, and an ice supply. Back in antiquity, humans must have realized this, as vegetables were stored in a root cellar while dairy products were placed in the ice-cold waters in a spring house.