April 2025 

Merchants Despatch / Illinois Central Refrigerated Boxcar
Road Number 13550

Built in 1956 by Pacific Car & Foundry, this Merchants Despatch Transportation Company steel ice reefer with Bettendorf trucks was lettered for Illinois Central service. Illinois Central Gulf was formed after the merger of Gulf, Mobile & Ohio and the Illinois Central in 1972. Eventually, Canadian National purchased the railroad in 1998.

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