Reefer: A refrigerator car. Similar in appearance to a boxcar but uses ice or mechanical cooling equipment.
Reefer (Refrigerator Car) - Cooled by ice loaded through roof hatches, or by mechanical means, in modern times, these insulated freight cars are used to transport frozen goods.
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REEFER or RIFF"Refrigerator car
REPTILE"See snake
RETAINER"Small valve located near brake wheel for drawing off and holding air on cars. (Retainers often figure prominently in true tales and fiction stories about runaway cars on trains) ...
57' Reefer:
These can be modeled in HO scale with the Athearn 57 foot Reefer.
ARMN 912026, Large text "SEcTO"
NRDX 95127, Faces & Text.
Reefer
A refrigerator car. Similar to a boxcar but has ice or mechanical cooling equipment.
Reefer Block ...
Reefers: refrigerated cars haul perishables, and are something like a meat locker on trucks. The older cars had ice bunkers which were replenished at icing stations along the way. Today's reefers have mechanical refrigeration units.
Reefer
Slang for a refrigerator car.
Reefer Block
Freight train consisting of refrigerator cars.
Reefer
A refrigerator car, sometimes known as a freezer.
Refining In Transit ...
GN 50' express reefer
Schreiner Scale Models (unpainted urethane copies of the Sylvania/Midgauge cars, unpainted bodies): ...
Reefer A common slang term for a refrigerator car. Regenerative Braking Braking mode of modern electric locomotives, where the motors act as generators as with the dynamic braking but, instead of being converted into heat, ...
This Penn Central reefer was one of the cars we needed for our train. Photo by Barry Sanel.
We're hooked up, and I'm ready to pull. Photo collection of Barry Sanel.
Refrigerator cars (or, colloquially, reefers) - a refrigerated subtype of boxcar
Airplane parts cars
Flatcars (or flat) - for larger loads that don't load easily into a boxcar.
Reefer
RAILWAYS. I think this is probably a slang expression for a refrigerated freight wagon.
Regional Passenger Transit (RPT)
TRAINZ.
Steam era reefer express trains also had to periodically stop at icing platforms.
Second Class Manifest or Through freights, #51-98, provide fast service between major yards.
The caboose was painted with caboose red paint for the sides, and reefer yellow for the ends. The cupola window rails were painted light gray, as were the window edges on the front and back of the cupola. The smoke-jack was painted grimy black.
Slang term for refrigerator car; also known as a "reefer."
Frog
The portion of a turnout which is grooved for the wheel flanges; so-named for its resemblance to a frog.
Refrigerator van
An enclosed van with a refrigeration unit to keep the contents cool. Called reefers in North America.
Reefer: A refrigerated railcar, used to transport perishable goods.
Rent-a-Wreck (slang, U.S.): A (usually old) locomotive owned by a leasing company.
 See also: Track, Car, Train, Boxcar, Locomotive
  
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