American Refrigerator Transit Company

Detail on an American Refrigerator Transit car, 1943.

The American Refrigerator Transit Company (ART) was a St. Louis, Missouri-based private refrigerator car line established in 1881 by the Missouri Pacific and Wabash railroads. It is now a subsidiary of the Union Pacific Corporation.^[1]

American Refrigerator Transit Company, 1900–1970:

1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970
1,500	—	3,000*	12,500*	13,000*	11,457	9,670	6,158

*estimated.

Source: The Great Yellow Fleet, p. 16.

References

1. Class I Railroad Annual Report R-1: Union Pacific Railroad Company to the Surface Transportation Board for the Year Ending Dec. 31, 2007

• Green, Gene (2005) "Refrigerator Car Color Guide", Morning Sun Books, Scotch Plains, NJ. ISBN 1-58248-165-2.
• White, John W. (1986). The Great Yellow Fleet. Golden West Books, San Marino, CA. ISBN 0-87095-091-6.
• White, John H. Jr. (1993). The American Railroad Freight Car: From the Wood-Car Era to the Coming of Steel. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0-8018-4404-5. OCLC 26130632.