This photograph shows a icing machine filling the end bunkers and top ices (body icing) of a Santa Fe Refrigerator Dispatch (SFRD) car 11273. The machine would crush the ice, then move on its own 3,700 foot rail to fill a number of cars. SFRD was a subsidiary of the Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe Railway Company.
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Kansas Historical Society
Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe Railway Company's refrigerator car, Argentine, Kansas.