Refrigerator Car on the Illinois Central

ID: 1648
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Refrigerator Car on the Illinois Central

A group of men stand before an Illinois Central Railroad refrigerator car. Courtesy of the Kentucky Historical Society.

This file appears in: Historic Railroad

By McKenzie Martin
Historical Marker #1134 in McCracken County celebrates the historic Illinois Central Railroad. Rail played a significant role in the growth and expansion of western Kentucky through the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Paducah served as…