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A photograph showing ice being blown into a car through a large hose using an electrically driven centrifugal impeller. The ice refrigerated leaf vegetables, which were transported by rail. This machine located at the Argentine, Kansas yards, is the only one on the system that handles both body and bunker icing.
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: Between 1955 and 1959
Item Number: 212007
Call Number: ATSF Series 2, #463.08-7722
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 212007
Business and Industry - Railroad - Companies - Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Business and Industry - Railroad - Facilities - Rail yards
Business and Industry - Railroad - Freight trains
Business and Industry - Railroad - Rolling stock - Refrigerator cars
Collections - Photograph - Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Date - 1950s
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Places - Cities and towns - Argentine
Places - Counties - Wyandotte
Thematic Time Period - Eisenhower Years, 1946 - 1961
Transportation - Railroads - Companies - Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Transportation - Railroads - Facilities - Rail yards
Transportation - Railroads - Freight trains
Transportation - Railroads - Rolling stock - Refrigerator cars
Type of Material - Photographs
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