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DAR286510
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Canadian Pacific Railway Refrigerated Car No. 286510
This 40 foot wooden refrigerator car with a steel underframe operated on the DAR in the 1920s, one of the CPR vast fleet of over 4,000 refrigerated cars. It was built between 1916 and 1918.[1]
CPR Series 286000 to 287010
Specifications:[2]
- Inside Length: 34' 4"
- Inside Width: 8' 7"
- Inside Height: 6' 8"
- Outside Length: 41'
- Outside Width: 9' 11"
- Height, rail to running board: 13' 6"; rail to top of brake wheel: 14'
- Side doors (opening): 5' wide, 6' 4" high
- Capacity: 78,000 lbs.
- Volume: 1,993 cubic feet
- Icing Agent: Chunk Ice (blocks), 6,500 lbs, 170 cubic feet
- Internal Hardware: Meat rails in ceiling.
Gallery
Apple Warehouses at Hillaton with CPR Refrigerator Car No. 286510 on right, 1920s.
References and Footnotes
- ↑ Jim Little "CPR Wood Sheathed Refrigerator Cars", CP Tracks, Summer 1999, page 14.
- ↑ Official Railway Equipment Register, July 1932, page 280
