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Pictures of URTX 66234
Owner:
Union Refrigerator Transit Co.
Type:
Reefer
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Illinois Railway Museum
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Title:
SRLX 15149
Description:
Photo Date:
7/13/2008
Upload Date:
1/20/2009 6:43:31 PM
Location:
Union, IL
Author:
Jay Tester
Categories:
RollingStock
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641
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Title:
URTX-Oscar Mayer #66234
Description:
Built by General American Transportation Co’pany in 1954. The following is from a display sign on the car: Union Refrigerator Transit was one of the largest lessors of refrigerated freight cars. The cars often carrimd the lessees name. Until the development of reliable mechanical cooling systems, refrigerator (reefer) cars used ice to maintain the interior temperature necessary for saf 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 Keefers often traveled at passenger train speeds. URTX 66234 was equipped with meat rails and hooks, for transport of meat for lessee Oscar Mayer (and previously, Swift Refrigerator Lines) until its retirement. The car was purchased from The Wisconsin Electric Railway Historical Society, and arrivnd at IRM in 1989.
Photo Date:
5/24/2009
Upload Date:
6/15/2009 1:53:15 PM
Location:
Union, IL
Author:
Tim Fennell
Categories:
RollingStock
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Views:
454
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Title:
URTX #66234
Description:
Meat Reefer built 1954 by General American Transportation Company.
Photo Date:
9/19/2010
Upload Date:
11/18/2010 9:27:35 PM
Location:
Union, IL
Author:
Tim Fennell
Categories:
RollingStock
Locomotives:
Views:
308
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0
Title:
URTX 66234
Description:
Photo Date:
8/20/2011
Upload Date:
6/7/2012 1:37:10 PM
Location:
Union, IL
Author:
Neil Stutzman
Categories:
Locomotives:
Views:
221
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0
Title:
URTX #66234 / SRLX #15149
Description:
lettered for lessee Oscar Mayer, formerly Swift
Photo Date:
4/12/2015
Upload Date:
5/22/2015 6:56:56 AM
Location:
Union, IL
Author:
Tim Fennell
Categories:
Locomotives:
Views:
557
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0
Title:
URTX-Oscar Mayer ex Swift
Description:
Photo Date:
5/28/2022
Upload Date:
6/4/2022 6:24:46 PM
Location:
Union, IL
Author:
Tim Fennell
Categories:
Locomotives:
Views:
198
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0
Title:
URTX 66234
Description:
Photo Date:
8/12/2022
Upload Date:
11/16/2022 2:56:00 PM
Location:
Union, IL
Author:
Zachary Walters
Categories:
Roster,RollingStock
Locomotives:
Views:
188
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