refrigerator-car

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noun A freight-car fitted up for the preservation by means of cold of perishable merchandise. Such cars are supplied with an ice-chamber, and sometimes with a blower, which is driven by a belt from one axle of the car, and causes a constant circulation of air over the ice and through the car.

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The particular refrigerator-car in which we were to meet had already gone by, and half a dozen cars down the train from it I swung on to the side-ladders, went up on top hurriedly, and dropped down into an ice-box.

Hoboes That Pass in the Night 1907
The particular refrigerator-car in which we were to meet had already gone by, and half a dozen cars down the train from it I swung on to the side-ladders, went up on top hurriedly, and dropped down into an ice-box.

Hoboes That Pass in the Night 1907
After dark I hunted around in the railroad yards until I found an empty refrigerator-car.

Hoboes That Pass in the Night 1907
The particular refrigerator-car in which we were to meet had already gone by, and half a dozen cars down the train from it I swung onto the side ladders, went up on top hurriedly, and dropped down into an ice-box.

Hoboes That Pass in the Night 1907
Prior to the invention of the refrigerator-car, the business of the packer was to cure salt meats and pack them for transportation.

Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen Elbert Hubbard 1885
"Shipped right through on our private refrigerator-car.

Ridgway of Montana (Story of To-Day, in Which the Hero Is Also the Villain) William MacLeod Raine 1912