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A Refrigerator Car (also known as a "Reefer") is defined as a fully enclosed freight car used for carrying perishable commodities requiring it to keep the commodities a constant temperature (usually cold or frozen) during transport.
The Western Pacific Railroad Museum features one of the most complete collections of refrigerator cars of any museum in the country. WPRM's reefer collection includes cars spanning the entire evolution of refrigerated rail transport, from cars among the first wooden reefers using large blocks of ice to cool the load, to a very early example of diesel powered mechanical refrigerator units, to modern cryogenic reefers utilizing carbon dioxide to keep the load cool.
