PFE experiment3ed with end-mount refrigeration units, applied to ice-car bodies, in 1960 and 1962, five different mechanical arrangements in five different cars, using Trane, Carrier, York and Thermo-King refrigeration. Although plans were made to convert 500 cars, that program was never carried out. In 1965, two of the experimental cars received new Thermo-King and Transicold units, but the entire experiment was terminated in 1968  (see the PFE book for photos and more details).

      All that, of course, lies somewhere in the misty future of this list.

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