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Originally Posted by HossC
The key to finding this location was discovering that Formay was the name of a product and not the company. This 1950s tin can is for sale on eBay, and has "Manufactured by Swift & Company" on the back.
Parfay was another Swift & Company product. There's a "SWIFT" boxcar similar to this one just to the right of the main building in e_r's picture.
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Great work as usual,
HossC.
To ad a bit to Earl Boebert's comment for the non-railroaders who visit NLA,the identifying features of a refrigerator car are the hatches on the roof for loading ice, and the hinged doors as opposed to the sliding type seen on a boxcar. Today's reefers use mechanical refrigeration units that typically run on diesel fuel. In addition they have a modified version of the sliding boxcar door.
Cheers,
Jack