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Photos & Videos Photo of the Day Icing the reefers on the CB&Q

Icing the reefers on the CB&Q

By Mitch Horner | January 22, 2026

A black and white photograph depicting workers on trop of a freight car in a rail yard

A worker shovels salt into a reefer via a rolling chute at the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy’s icing dock in Denver in 1949. The conveyor chain on the platform at right carries block ice along the platform. Earl Cochran photo

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