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Beef travelled by both - the railway cars were also refrigerated (I believe the last wooden style ice cars were decommissioned post WWII!) But transport by wat
by lifeisstillgood 4y ago
Beef travelled by both - the railway cars were also refrigerated (I believe the last wooden style ice cars were decommissioned post WWII!)
But transport by water is roughly two orders of magnitude cheaper than (pre railway) land transport - see also acoup.blog on Land Trains and game of thrones for a interesting segue.