A critical issue that confronted the ever-expanding frozen food industry in the 1980s was the availability of mechanical refrigerated railcars owned and/or operated by the nation's railroads. The railroads have maintained a posture of declining interest towards the replacement of, or adding to, their refrigerated car fleets. A couple of reasons are cited for this attitude on the part of the railroads. One such incentive is the severe economic pressures of supporting a nationwide infrastructure to maintain in excess of 800 moving parts in a typical mechanical railcar. A second reason is the high cost of new equipment asset replacement. Consequently, the availability of mechanically refrigerated boxcars have declined more than fifty percent since the 80s and the numbers continue to dwindle. As a result, finding an alternative to the mechanically refrigerated railcar became a top priority. Cryo-Trans was established in late 1985. Since its inception, it has evolved into a major 100-ton capacity refrigerated car source with its patented CO2 railcar refrigeration technology. Today Cryo-Trans operates a fleet in excess of 515 cryogenic railcars.

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