Santa-Fe Food Service # 2.

Santa Fe was as huge carrier of food from the West to food processors all over the country. This two -pack represents two distictive cars in food service.

The Conditionaire cars came from American car and Foundry, and were designed with cooled chambers in the lining, and were rated a 100 tons load carry capacity, a huge advantage over standard reefers, they were quite economical to load and unload, as no secondary packing was required. Apples, carrots, onions,, and potatoes were transported in this manner. the cars' irregular, orange-colored outer surface (though darker in shade than the standard AT&SF yellow-orange used on reefers) tended to collect dirt easily, and proved difficult to clean as well. Santa Fe eventually relegated the cars to more typical, non-refrigerated applications.
The Food Service Box Car were developed as Clean Cars to keep food products seprate from other types of lading..