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 Age v 128 n 24 June 1950 p 1168-72)


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    Title :

    Canadian railways' refrigerator cars


    Additional title:

    Ry Mech Elec Engr


    Contributors:


    Publication date :

    1950


    Size :

    5 pages


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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