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Photos & Videos Photo of the Day Icing station on the Erie

Icing station on the Erie

By Angela Cotey | July 12, 2023

| Last updated on August 7, 2025

At an icing station on the Erie Railroad, crushed ice is dumped into refrigerator cars from a cart on the upper level through a funnel that rides on tracks at the platform edge.
Erie Railroad photo

One thought on “Icing station on the Erie”

Joseph Harrington says:

July 29, 2023 at 12:20 pm

Looks like the former Ice House at Hornell New York was very huge complex in the ice cars going from the West to New York City

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