Pacific Fruit Express was co-owned by Union Pacific and Southern Pacific. This 40-foot class R-30-12 car, built in 1923, had a wood body and steel underframe. It was typical of the thousands of “modern” refrigerator cars through the 1930s.
Photo by Standard Steel Car Co.
Some of ice cars with wood bodies were still in service in the early 70’s. I hired on with FGE at Potomac Yard in 1972 and we were still iceing cars there. Wish I had been taking pictures of that operation. I iced the last car done at PotYd.
Class, R-30-12 when build, R-30-16 when rebuilt in 1941…
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