St. Louis Refrigerator Car Company

St. Louis Refrigerator Car Co. #4466, a bunkerless refrigerator car, AAR mechanical designation RB, passes through Limon, Colorado on November 9, 1951.

The St. Louis Refrigerator Car Company (SLRX) was a private refrigerator car line established on February 3, 1878, by Anheuser-Busch, the brewer's first subsidiary. SLRX was formed to facilitate large-scale distribution of the A-B's products via the U.S. rail network. The SLRX not only built its own bunkerless reefers, but maintained and operated them as well.

In 1919 the firm was acquired by Manufacturers Railway Company (MRS), another A-B transportation subsidiary that provided switching service to the brewery and interchange connection with the common carrier railroads serving St. Louis. The St. Louis Refrigerator Car Company currently owns the "Dome Railway Service" in Wood River, Illinois.

St. Louis Refrigerator Car Company Roster, 1900–1960:

1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970
1,500	1,500	5,088	604	762	1,337	944	268

References

White, John H. (1986). The Great Yellow Fleet. Golden West Books, San Marino, CA. ISBN 0-87095-091-6.
White, John H. Jr. (1993). The American Railroad Freight Car: From the Wood-Car Era to the Coming of Steel. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0-8018-4404-5. OCLC 26130632.

Anheuser-Busch InBev

Corporate directors	Carlos Brito, CEO August Busch IV Arnoud de Pret Roose de Calesberg Philippe de Spoelberch Jorge Paulo Lemann

Subsidiaries	Anheuser-Busch, Inc (Manufacturers Railway) St. Louis Refrigerated Car Co. InBev AmBev Grupo Modelo

Equity investments	Craft Brew Alliance [32.2%] Redhook Widmer Bros. Kona Brewing

Global and multi-country brands	Beck's Brahma beer Budweiser Cerveza Corona Hoegaarden Leffe Stella Artois

Local brands	10 Barrel Antarctica Bass Belle-Vue Blue Point Boddingtons Brewery Busch Beer Diekirch Dommelsch Dutch Gold Elysian Franziskaner Four Peaks Guaraná Antarctica Harbin Brewery Hasseröder Hertog Jan Jupiler Karbach King Cobra Kokanee Labatt Lakeport Löwenbräu Lucky Michelob Mousel Natural Oranjeboom Quilmes Rolling Rock Skol Spaten St. Pauli Girl

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Major private refrigerator car lines of the United States

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