Design features of all steel refrigerator cars built in Canada; under insulation in roof of car 8 shallow ice tanks are mounted so they can be filled with ice from car roof; tanks retain reservoir of cold brine after all ice load has melted; they hold 7000 lb of ice and salt and, with 30 to 70% mixture, temperature of melting ice is -6 F; cars equipped with charcoal heater carried under car where it can be serviced from the ground. Before Toronto Ry Club. (see also Ry Mech and Elec Engr v 124 n 7 July 1950 p 374-8)
Canadian railways' refrigerator cars
Ry Age
Railway Age ; 128 , n 24
1950
5 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Englisch
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