Ice and the railroads: Pt. Ⅲ-railroad ice houses

摘要

Railroad ice houses are for the purpose of storing supplies of ice at convenient points. While this statement was obviously true for railroad companies with a large perishable traffic, it was even more so for packing house companies and private car lines. For example, the Armour Car Lines company was forced to build large, expensive houses in places like Georgia (peach crop) and Louisiana (strawberries) to support the perishable businesses there that they largely created. In support of these warm weather houses, refrigerator cars had to be deployed to ship ice to fill them.