ST. LOUIS REFRIGERATOR CAR COMPANY Car

About of ST. LOUIS REFRIGERATOR CAR COMPANY

Schlitz Refrigerated Box Cars or Reefers Plus History Behind

. Shipping partial loads was cost prohibitive, so 90 barrels a carload had to be shipped at one time and any excess over what the local retailers needed had to be stored in company owned icehouses.

. Attempts were made to ship carload shipments without company storage.

. Anheuser-Busch sets up the Manufacturer's Railway Company.

. The Union Refrigerator Transit Company is set up by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Co.

. Joseph relates that every time one of the cars went west of the Mississippi the company got a rebate of 1 1/2 cents a mile; when the car went east of the River it got 1 1/4 cents.

. 1903 - 1905, the Milwaukee Refrigeration Transit Company, a Pabst subsidiary, headed by Fred Pabst (the son) is set up to make favorable railroad arrangements without incurring the penalties of rebating.

. The Pabst Brewing Company: The History of an American Business , by Thomas C.

. Brewed in America: The History of Beer and Ale in the United States , by Stanley Baron, Little, Brown and Company, 1962.

Railway Car Builders of North America

. Company Plant Location Date Successor, Comments or Cross-reference Belleville, ON From James S.

. Charles Omnibus Company St.

. Louis, MO 1887-1968/1973 From Laclede Car Company.

. In 1919 it was acquired by Manufacturers Railway Company, another A-B subsidiary.

. Louis-San Francisco 1926-1980 We believe this reference was to the Frisco RR but will include it until we can be certain there was no car company of this name.

. To Terre Haute, IN 1868-1872 D/B/A Terre Haute Car Works Incorporated 1872 as Terre Haute Car & Manufacturing Company Youngstown, WA Renton, WA 1911-1917 From Seattle Car Manufacturing Company Merged with Twohy Brothers Company to become Humphrey (now Youngstown), WA Renton, WA 1905-1911 From Railway & Steel Supply Company To Selby Locomotive & Machine 1914 Sellers, Coleman, & Sons ( Coleman Sellers & Sons ) Philadelphia, PA 1835-1838 Built three locomotives after death of senior partner, then at least one of the sons moved to Ohio.

Builders of Wooden Railway Cars ... and some of other stuff

. Hammond & Company) (Mc-Guire Cummings) (Barney & Smith) (Jackson & Sharp) (Billmeyer & Small) (Fales & Gray) (Brinkley Car Works & Manufacturing Company) (Murphy & Allison) (Koppel Car Co., Arthur Koppel Car Co., Arthur Koppel Industries, Koppel Industrial Car & Equipment Co.

. Orenstein & Koppel Co.) (Missouri Car & Foundry) (McLean & Wright / McLean & Fleck / McLean, Wright & Co.) (Company) (Murray, Dougal & Company) (Pennock Bros.) (J.G.

. Brill) d/b/a Chicago Car & Locomotive Works (Smith & Perkins) (Bowers, Dure & Company) (Billmeyer & Small) Appliances, Accessories, etc.

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Revised 1/25/05 Go to: Kahn's According to Martin Lofton, the company was a kosher meat packer.

. Kahn's Sons Company of Cincinnati, OH, leased meat reefers from National Car, both short and 40 foot cars.

. In 1888, 1900, and 1924, the company didn't list any freight cars.

. The company name, with "The" was on one line above the reporting marks with lines and periods.

. (Champ showed a repack date of '54.) Can anyone date this better and/or earlier? Kaiser Company, Inc.

. In 1949, the company listed freight cars.

. In 1949, the Kalamazoo company listed one 8, 000-gallon tank car, no.

. Kankakee, Beaverville & Southern According to Edward Lewis ( American Shortline Railway Guide ), the Beaverville, IL company was created in Oct.

. Wayne Henderson and Scott Benjamin ( Guide To Gasoline Logos ) said the company was founded as Superior Refining in Longton, KS in 1905, although the Kanotex brandname (contraction of "Kansas-Oklahoma-Texas") was not used until 1909.

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Large Artifact Collection

. (demolished May/June 2005) A & P Roberts Company, 1896-built through-pin- connected Pratt truss.

. Agnew Lumber Company #1 Lima 1904 3-Truck Shay Last operated 1951; ex.

. Eastern Railway & Lumber Company #1.

. Ohio Match Company #4 Heisler 1923 2-Truck Heisler Last operated 1958; Purchased 1967 from Charles G.

. Weyerhaeuser Timber Company #6 Baldwin 1928 2-6-6-2 Gift 1965 of Weyerhaeuser Timber Co.

. Weyerhaeuser Timber Company #108 Baldwin 1926 2-6-6-2T Retired 1954; Gift 1964 of Weyerhaeuser Timber Co.

. Baxter Company #6-C Whitcomb 1925 MO 12 Ton Gasoline-Mechanical.

. Regis Paper Company #463 Plymouth 1943 ML-6 30 Ton Gasoline Mechanical Gift 1977 of St.

. General American #GATX-585 General American 1929 Tank Car Gift 1980 of Bethlehem Steel Company.

. Shell Chemical Company #SNHX-2058 General American 1943 Tank Car Gift 19?? of Shell Chemical Co.

. Shell Oil Company #SCCX-1246 General American 1929 Tank Car Gift 1971 of Shell Oil Co.

Vintage Trains and Vintage Racing Cars (Opening Soon In This Space!)

. In early 1867, the first all-passenger trains begin operation, including Pullman sleepers 1/1866 UP reaches Fremont NE 7/1/1866 United States Express Company begins operating express service on the UP; The American Express Company, later the Holiday Overland & Express Company, and Wells Fargo & Company, also used the UP until September 1869 10/6/1866 UP reaches the 100th Meridian - 207 miles from Omaha; An excursion travels to the Meridian on October 22, consisting of 3 baggage cars and 6 first class passenger cars, including Durant's private car (the ex-Lincoln car) and the UP director's car 1867 George Westinghouse patents the air brake 1867 Refrigerator car first developed 1867 UP completes construction through Borie WY by the end of the year 1867 UP lays 240 miles of track, including the ascent up Sherman Hill 1867 (Fall) UP reaches Cheyenne 1/7/1867 Cedar Rapids & Missouri River Railroad (C&NW) arrives at Council Bluffs and builds a 3 mile line to a Missouri River ferry ramp 12/1867 Masonry foundation laid for the Dale Creek bridge 12/26/1867 First UP train to cross the Missouri River on track laid on an 'ice bridge' over the frozen river before a permanent bridge was built; Only freight trains used these ice bridges 1868 Automatic coupler patented by Confederate veteran Major Eli H.

PA State Archives - MG-393 - Container Listings 12- Pullman-Standard Company

Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission Bureau of Archives and History Pennsylvania State Archives MG-393 Pullman-Standard Collection Standard Steel Car Company-Butler Works Container Listings {series #393m.58} MG-393 Pullman-Standard Collection Standard Steel Car Company-Butler Works Technical Records Industry Trade Association Standards Supplement to the Manual of the American Railway Association: Drawings for Cars and Trucks Adopted as Recommended Practice , 1923, 1925, 1932, 1934, 1936, 1938 (bulk: 1923, 1925).

. (2 volumes) carton 3 {series #393m.59} MG-393 Pullman-Standard Collection Standard Steel Car Company-Butler Works Technical Records Order Tracking Registers, Indexes, Parts Specifications Index Sheets for Cars Built by the Middletown and Pullman-Standard Car Export Company , 1904-1938 (bulk: 1915-1930).

. (1 folder) folder {series #393m.60} MG-393 Pullman-Standard Collection Standard Steel Car Company-Butler Works Technical Records Order Tracking Registers, Indexes, Parts Specifications Middletown Office Orders , M3500-3725, 1928-1931.

FREIGHT CARS (None of the freight cars are open to visitors)

. On Track # 4 Humble Oil Company tank car #31589 , built in 1918 by Union Tank Car Company.

. Kanotex Refining Company tank car #879 , built in 1941.

. Arrow Refining Company tank car #116 (ex-Kansas City Railroad), built in 1923.

. Union tank car #83699 , built in 1963 by Union Tank Car Company.

. Donated in 1983 by Union Tank Car Company.

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. His firm, Kroeschell Brothers Ice Machine Company, installs hundreds of cooling plants into the 1930s.

. 1931 A heat pump air-conditioning system in Los Angeles office building Southern California Edison Company installs a heat pump air-conditioning system in its Los Angeles office building.

. 1939 Air conditioning offered as an option in a Packard automobile Packard Motor Car Company markets an automobile with air conditioning offered as an option for $274.

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. Railroads built massive icing platforms and naturally-harvested their own ice at company-owned ice ponds and lakes.

. Research suggests that it originally may have been formed in 1895 as the Union Refrigerator Transit Compoany of Milwaukee, Wisconsin by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company to own and operate a line of refrigerated railroad cars.

. Another source shows that URT was incorporated in 1903, with no indication that the company was ever started by, or was involved with the Schlitz Brewing Company.

. In the early 1970s General American, by then known as General American Transportation Company (GATX) phased its URT subsidiary out of existence and divested itself of the aging wooden fleet of former Union Refrigerator Transit reefers.

FindLaw for Legal Professionals - Case Law, Federal and State Resources, Forms, and Code

. 149 UNION REFRIGERATOR TRANSIT COMPANY, Plff.

. Argued March 21, 1900 The Union Refrigerator Transit Company filed its bill in the district court in and for Salt Lake county, state of Utah, against Stephen H.

. Lynch, treasurer of Salt Lake county and collector of taxes therein, alleging: 'That it is and was during all the times hereinafter mentioned a corporation duly organized and existing under and by virtue of the laws of the state of Kentucky; that its principal office and place of business is in the city of Louisville, in said state, and was and is engaged exclusively in the business of furnishing to shippers refrigerator cars for the transportation of perishable freight over the various lines of railroads throughout the United States and of soliciting shipments for such cars and giving to the said cars needful attention at various points in transit; that the said cars are and were during the said times the sole property of the plaintiff, and are not and were not during any of the said time allotted, leased, rented, or furnished under contract to any railroad company or companies or carriers of freight; nor were they run on any particular line or lines of railroad; nor were they confined to any particular route or routes, nor in any particular trains, nor at any specified or agreed times, but are and were run indiscriminately over the lines of railroad over which consignors of freight shipped in such cars choose to route them in shipping.

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. April 24, 1899 In March, 1896, the American Refrigerator Transit Company, a corporation organized under laws of the state of Illinois, filed in the district court of Arapahoe county, state of Colorado, against Frank Hall, treasurer of said county, a bill of complaint, seeking to restrain the defendant from enforcing payment by the said transit company of certain taxes assessed upon refrigerator cars owned by the company, and used for the transportation of perishable freight over various lines of railroad throughout the United States.

. The bill alleged that the business in which said cars were engaged was exclusively interstate commerce business; that the company has, and has had, no office of place of business within the state of Colorado, and that all the freight transported in plaintiff's cars was transported either from a point or points in a state outside of the state of Colorado to a point within that state, or from a point in the state of Colorado to a point without said state, or between points wholly outside of said state; that said cars had no taxable situs within said state; that said assessment of taxes upon said cars was without authority of law and void; and that complainant had no plain or adequate remedy a law.