Great Indian Peninsula Railway, refrigerator car, around 1901.

Original text: "Recently the railway mentioned has gone a step further and put on experimentally in one of their Punjab Mail trains, between Bombay and Lahore, a refrigerator car which carries a small but complete cold producing plant operated by electricity, the current being generated by a high speed oil engine carried on board. The plant occupies about one third of the car, the remaining two thirds being utilized as a cold storage chamber. This latter is intended for the conveyance of perishables from Bombay to Imperial Delhi and the large cities of the Punjab. On the homeward journey the storage is available for fruits, etc., being brought from the orchards of the North-West to Bombay and the South. The passenger cars running next to the refrigerator have brine pipe connections with the cold storage, and along these ice-cold liquid is circulated through ..."

From "Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock" (1900s) Scan from the Internet Archive of Book Images.