The Union Refrigerator Transit Company was a division of General Transportation Corporation headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.  Founded in 1903, Union Refrigerator Transit (URTL)  and General American operated separately until the early 1970s when all of the URTL cars were integrated into the General American Listings.  Combined they had over 5000 cars some of which would be leased out to private packing companies.  One of those companies was Bookey Packing Company from Des Moines Iowa.

The Merchants Despatch Transportation Corporation (MDT) was primarily involved with the transportation of fruit and vegetables.  In the early years, it was managed by the New York Central Railroad and later became owned by NYC.  They had a total of 13,684 cars owned or leased by the 1940's.   MDT built a huge shop at Rochester, New York which built refrigerator cars  as well as other freight cars.   Mercantile Refrigerator Line or MERX graphics started being used in the 1960s which is when one could see the National Packing Company logo applied to MERX leased equipment.

Wilson Car Lines was a division of Wilson & Company who had packing plants in all of the largest meat packing centers, as well as in smaller towns all over the nation.  Wilson reefers could be seen on almost every railroad throughout the country.  Wilson operated their own fleet of approximately 1500 refrigerator cars  and also leased refrigerator cars to smaller meat plants.  One of those plants was Cornland Dressed Beef who then applied their own logo onto the car.  These cars were built in June of 1957.

Road # LAPX 2007 and # LAPX 2061 are two of 65 (2001- 2065) AAR class XT 40' cars built by General American Transportation Corporation in February 1952 and leased to Linde Air Products Company.  The cars in the series were equipped with 7-rung side and end ladders, Apex Tri-lok running boards and brake steps, Youngstown post-war steel doors with Camel fixtures, Universal power hand brakes, and 70 ton trucks with 33" one-wear wrought steel wheels.  Over the years, a total of 347 cars were made by by GATC for the Linde Co.

Known as Cryogenic Gas Box/Tank cars, these were special tank cars masquerading as box cars.  Hidden inside were 7,000 to 9,700 gallon double walled, vacuum-insulated, cryogenic-gas tanks each weighing in at about 30 tons independent of the car itself or its commodity. In order to transport the interior tank along with its liquid commodity, the cars were built with a capacity of 70 tons.

NSC Commissioned Micro-Trains to produce this 1st in a series of cryogenic gas box/tank cars. Each box/tank car has a custom made cyrogenic tank mounted to the floor. A separately etched brass ladder is attached, and controls are printed, reflecting the prototype.

Two 3 Bay Covered Hoppers

3 Bay Covered Hopper

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