Refrigerator car

the history of Refrigerator Car

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    invention

  • The First Refrigerator Car

    Mr. Wilder he's credited for the first Refrigerator Car in the 1851

  • patented date

    In 1860, W.A Chandler and J.B Sutherland patented the car.

  • The Refrigerator Car

    The Railroad cars are known as reefers.It's an insulted boxcar that keeps the cargo at 40 degrees farieheit.The first reefers relied on ice to cool their cargo.

  • Steel Reefers

    They switched for wooden reefers to steel reefers.
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    The Invention of Refrigeratore Car

  • first diesel- powered refrigerator

    Reefers began tp be cooled.

  • improvements made to refrigerator cars

    The plug door allowed it to stay cool.