Tonight was a rough evening at work, not one of the four locomotives in our consist had a refrigerator on them, not a single one. Instead they had these boxes that you had to fill with ice, which was used to keep the inside of the box cool. Around the turn of the last century (1800-1900) they called these things Ice Boxes and they were completely antiquated with the invention of the at home refrigerator in 1914 (Nathaniel B. Whales). Apparently the Union Pacific railroad was too busy building enormous locomotives to get the refrigerator memo.
Posted on: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 07:50:55 +0000