Published by Swany on 23 Feb 2012 at 02:26 pm
They Still Cut Ice the Old Way
Modern Mechanix: “1947: HARVEST time is approaching on the Black River at Carthage, N. Y., where the New York Central Railroad still cuts an annual crop of natural ice. It will cool next summer’s milk cars, passengers’ drinking water, and be used in cabooses for the convenience of freight-train crews.”