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Owner: Union Refrigerator Transit Co.
Type: Reefer
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URTX-Morris Rifkin & Son #5348
Title:  URTX-Morris Rifkin & Son #5348
Description:  Built by General American Transportation Company in 1941.
Photo Date:  7/29/2008  Upload Date: 8/16/2008 6:59:09 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories:  RollingStock
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URTX-Morris Rifkin & Son #5348
Title:  URTX-Morris Rifkin & Son #5348
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/24/2009  Upload Date: 5/31/2009 12:49:52 AM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  799   Comments: 0
URTX #5348
Title:  URTX #5348
Description:  This car is on the to be scrapped list due the heavy deterioration. lettered for lessee Morris Rifkin & Son. (Update: A recent article in IRM's Magazine (Rail & Wire Issue 247 page 34, 35) indicates this car may yet be saved. According to Tom Schneider's article, "The estimated cost to restore 5348 is $30,000. This is for new siding and ends of Douglas fir, steel channels and angles, nails, screws, bolts, rivets, painting and lettering."
Photo Date:  4/12/2015  Upload Date: 5/22/2015 8:13:12 AM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
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Views:  194   Comments: 0
Barn 9
Title:  Barn 9
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/12/2015  Upload Date: 5/22/2015 8:15:19 AM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
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Locomotives:  CNW 1689(RSD5) MNS 21(DT66-2000) CRIP 938(4-6-2)
Views:  398   Comments: 0
Union Refrigerator Transit #5348
Title:  Union Refrigerator Transit #5348
Description:  Dying the slow death. Can it be saved? Rail & Wire (IRM's Magazine) has started the effort to save this historic meat reefer. According to Tom Schneider's article, "The estimated cost to restore 5348 is $30,000. This is for new siding and ends of Douglas fir, steel channels and angles, nails, screws, bolts, rivets, painting and lettering."
Photo Date:  9/5/2015  Upload Date: 9/7/2015 6:32:24 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
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Views:  263   Comments: 0
Union Refrigerator Transit #5348
Title:  Union Refrigerator Transit #5348
Description:  Can it be saved? Rail & Wire (IRM's Magazine) has started the effort to save this historic meat reefer. According to Tom Schneider's article, "The estimated cost to restore 5348 is $30,000. This is for new siding and ends of Douglas fir, steel channels and angles, nails, screws, bolts, rivets, painting and lettering." "If you would be interested in helping this project... donations can be made thru the office for the URTX 5348 project."
Photo Date:  4/16/2016  Upload Date: 4/21/2016 5:24:48 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
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Views:  264   Comments: 0
Union Refrigerator Transit 5348
Title:  Union Refrigerator Transit 5348
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/1/2018  Upload Date: 8/15/2019 10:38:56 PM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Joseph C.
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard
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Views:  54   Comments: 0
End of the Line / Twilight of a Reefer
Title:  End of the Line / Twilight of a Reefer
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/21/2021  Upload Date: 6/24/2021 3:24:51 AM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
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Views:  80   Comments: 0
End of the Line / Twilight of a Reefer
Title:  End of the Line / Twilight of a Reefer
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/21/2021  Upload Date: 6/24/2021 3:26:04 AM
Location:  Union, IL
Author:  Tim Fennell
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Views:  76   Comments: 0


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