Local Partnerships

ID: 1542 ~ Source: Image courtesy of the Texas Collection, Baylor University ~ Creator: Fred R. Gildersleeve
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Local Partnerships

Note the railway tracks running alongside the plant. Geyser Ice Company served as an official re-icing station for the M-K-T railway, allowing refrigerated cars to ship products such as Texas beef to the North and Midwest.

This file appears in: Geyser Ice Company

By J. B. Smith
The Geyser Ice Company complex has long outlived its heyday when it supplied ice for trains loaded with meat and vegetables, and when icemen drove their red horse-drawn wagons through Waco’s dusty streets. The collection of industrial buildings at…