Refrigerated boxcars, known as "Reefers" in railroad slang, are used to haul perishables. Older reefers had bunkers for ice, which kept their contens cold. Newere versions are refrigerated mechanically.
![]() The Lionel Cola car is an operating reefer |
![]() This Lionel milk car, made in 1947, is the ancestor of the Cola reefer |
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