refrigerator car
noun
1.
a freight car having either an ice chest or machinery for chilling perishables and sometimes having a heating unit to keep perishables from freezing.
Origin
1865-70,
Americanism
Examples from the web for
refrigerator car
In the summer--if they were lucky--a train would slow down long enough to throw out some extra ice from a
refrigerator car
.
They had the stuff with them in the
refrigerator car
, where they were stealing a ride, but were unable to take it off with them.