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A photograph showing two electronically controlled icing machines. The ice is pulled into the machines where it is crushed and delivered by a chute to the bunkers of refrigerator cars. In the background, is a second machine capable of receiving ice from either direction. Both machines completely ice refrigerator cars in 90 seconds.
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: Between 1955 and 1959
Item Number: 212008
Call Number: AT&SF Coll., Item 7728, Series 2, 463.14
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 212008
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 - Other States - California - Bakersfield
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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