One freight car that I always seemed to see in years gone by were white bodied refrigerator cars belonging to the St. Louis Refrigerator Car Company (SLRX). These cars came in wood bodied and steel bodied cars and the steel bodied cars were both ice bunker type and mechanical type. This company I believe was owned by Anhueser-Busch, the brewer headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri.

Were any examples of SLRX refrigerator cars preservered and if so, where?

Thanks again.

Les

Les,

The Museum of Transportation does have a preserved Anheiser Busch Beer Car, and I believe either a wood-bodied ART or St. Louis reefer as well. Next time I'm out at the museum, I'll take a look.

Hi,

Well, two tries at Anheuser-Busch, both incorrectly spelled!

A-B also owns Manufacturers Railway Company (MRS).

Cheers, Roger

Roger -

Thanks very much for the correction. Unfortunately, I did not have a product of Anheuser-Busch in the refrigerator to check the spelling. So a tip of my Leinenkugel's Red Lager to your eagle eye!

Les

SLRX # 025048 built in May of 1954 for the Swift Company is currently stored in Morristown, New Jersey in the collection of the United Rail Historical Society of New Jersey.

SRLX = Swift Refrigerator Lines

SLRX mechanical reefers 25043 and 25046 are in use as storage cars at Pennsylvania Trolley Museum, Washington, PA. They were obtained as donations in 1969 and arrived in complete and operable condition. Both are a bit rough looking and the refrigiration equipment is long gone, but they serve the storage purpose very well.

Dave Hamley, past president (2005-2006) PTM

SRLX:

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPi ... x?id=73856

PTM also has a steel sheathed ice bunker refrigerator car, used as the signal department shop. I can not remember the reporting marks. Dave, you probably have them.

It is not preserved but the old tool house at Ashley Heights on the A&R is a very old wooden ice bunker refer. The car is off its trucks and has one original door. The other door is a more modern barn type door added when the car was made into a tool house. I can find no evidence of the heritage of the car but suspect it was damaged in a wreck on the A&R and salvaged into a tool house.

John Bohon

Still looking for a good home for two 1940's-era ice refrigerator cars, Pacific Car & Foundry [PCX], lettered for Armour....

Email = tvrha2001@yahoo.com

The car at MOT in St. Louis is St. Louis Refrigerator Car Company #3600, a wooden bodied, steel underframe, insulated car without ice bunkers, built in 1904 and donated in 1958. In reality this car is another one renumbered to the first number for this type of car they had.

Pennsylvania Trolley Museum, Washington, PA, preserves three SLRX cars used for storage purposes (two) and our signal dept. shop (one). The storage cars are SLRX 50' mechanical reefers 25043 and 25046, built 1954. The shop car is 40' ice reefer SLRX 15405, also built 1954.

Dave -

Thanks! Wouldn't have any photos would you? I checked the museums website and the cars are not on the equipment roster and thus, no photos.

Les