PC-002-687

Santa Fe Ice Plant, Needles, California

 

 

 

The Albertype Company, Brooklyn, New York

This black-and-white card shows a trainyard ice plant behind tracks that go over a bridge. Before refrigerated train cars, ice was manufactured at or near trainyards for shipments of perishable foods. According to an account by D. K. Spencer, who worked there in 1943, the plant was about three miles south of town, was around 500 feet long and 300 feet wide, with facilities for making ice all year long and storing ice during the winter for summer use. Although the ice plant and dock were removed, Ice Plant Road remains in Needles.

Ice plants; Ice manufacture; Trainyards; Train tracks

 

California - Needles

 

 

MS-0008

 

Needles Drug & Jewelry Co., Needles, California

Postcard

3.5 inches X 5.5 inches

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TIFF

20.72 MB