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URTX-Oscar Mayer #66216 |
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Built by General American Transportation Company in 1954. The Following is from a sign attached to the car: Union Refrigerator Transit was one of the largest lessors of refrigerated freight cars. The cars often carried the lessees name. Until the development of reliable mechanical cooling systems, refrigerator (reefer) cars used ice to maintain the interior temperature necessary for safe transport of perishables. Major rail yard had icing platforms where ice would be loaded before or during transit into bunkers at each end of the cars. Entire trains of reefers often traveled at passenger train speeds. URTX 66216 was equipped with meat rails and hooks, for transport of meat for lessee Oscar Mayer (and previously, Swift Refrigerator Lines) until its retirement around 1970. The car was purchased from The Wisconsin Electric Railway Historical Society, and arrived at IRM in 1989. |
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7/17/2005 Upload Date: 8/16/2008 6:52:55 PM |
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Union, IL |
| Author: |
Tim Fennell |
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| Title: |
URTX #66216 - Oscar Mayer |
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Meat Reefer lettered for Lessee Oscar Mayer. Former Lessee Swift #15651. |
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5/15/2010 Upload Date: 5/16/2010 2:50:59 AM |
| Location: |
Union, IL |
| Author: |
Tim Fennell |
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445 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
URTX 66216 |
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8/20/2011 Upload Date: 6/7/2012 11:55:10 AM |
| Location: |
Union, IL |
| Author: |
Neil Stutzman |
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| Title: |
URTX Oscar Mayer Ice Refrigerator Car |
| Description: |
1954 Ice Refrigerator Car |
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9/4/2011 Upload Date: 12/28/2021 5:55:36 PM |
| Location: |
Union, IL |
| Author: |
Mauricio Burguete |
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Scenic,RollingStock,Station |
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122 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Reefer and Ice cars, Box cars and Tie Crane |
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9/4/2011 Upload Date: 12/28/2021 5:55:42 PM |
| Location: |
Union, IL |
| Author: |
Mauricio Burguete |
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Scenic,RollingStock,Station |
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144 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Swift and Oscar Mayer Refrigerator cars |
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9/4/2011 Upload Date: 12/28/2021 5:55:47 PM |
| Location: |
Union, IL |
| Author: |
Mauricio Burguete |
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Scenic,RollingStock,Station |
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135 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Tie Crane |
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9/4/2011 Upload Date: 12/28/2021 5:55:53 PM |
| Location: |
Union, IL |
| Author: |
Mauricio Burguete |
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Scenic,RollingStock,Station,Track |
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34 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
URTX Oscar Mayer Ice Refrigerator Car |
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9/4/2011 Upload Date: 12/30/2021 10:49:29 AM |
| Location: |
Union, IL |
| Author: |
Mauricio Burguete |
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Scenic,RollingStock,Station |
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| Title: |
URTX Oscar Mayer Ice Refrigerator Car |
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| Photo Date: |
9/4/2011 Upload Date: 12/30/2021 10:49:35 AM |
| Location: |
Union, IL |
| Author: |
Mauricio Burguete |
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Scenic,RollingStock,Station |
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49 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
URTX 66216 |
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7/3/2021 Upload Date: 10/17/2021 2:32:22 AM |
| Location: |
Union, IL |
| Author: |
Nicholas Katz |
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Roster,RollingStock,Yard,Track |
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52 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
URTX 66216 |
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6/12/2022 Upload Date: 6/17/2022 7:10:20 PM |
| Location: |
Union, IL |
| Author: |
Niko B |
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83 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
URTX 40ft Reefer 66216 |
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6/15/2022 Upload Date: 6/24/2022 10:58:51 PM |
| Location: |
Union, IL |
| Author: |
Wil Hata |
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