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[Lo_Poly]

Yesterday when mum and me were going to a store, I happened to notice two purple boxcars attached to a train that had big "BRAUM'S" logos on them. They appeared to be metal and had some big boxy mechanical things on them (like exterior air conditioning units).

This made me curious. Are there trains out there that ship dairy products, or basically just edible refrigerated products?


Chris.

 

[RooRocz]

Yes, in fact, the transport of dairy products used to be very big for the railroads. Railroads would often have express refrigerator cars at the front of passenger trains. Typically these cars would be owned by individual dairies and not the railroads themselves, and could be quite unique, like Borden's "Butterdish" cars:

In modern times, 60 ft monster refrigerator cars transport all kind of food and drink all over the country. I see the CSX juice train almost every day now, it's a unit refrigerator car train that carries oranges in big white reefers marked with the Tropicana logo from Florida to New Jersey to be made into Tropicana orange juice.