Refrigerated Cars


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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