The Refrigerator Railcar provides a boost to the money you make when delivering freight that is also considered food.

There are numerous commodities that are considered food and many that are not, some which may be surprising.

This list was compiled based on observed revenue from a train delivering to a city station. Deliveries to Warehouses do not benefit from the Refrigeration Car.

Testing conditions:
- As of: 15 July 2021
- Game version 1.14 (includes all DLC to date)
- Sandbox mode
- no mods
- All maps available to current version of game. Multiple eras in a map were used as food commodities changed in different eras (1850 versus 1910 for example)
- Assumed that one map for USA represented all maps of USA. For example, east coast versus west. Thus, it is possible that this was a bad assumption.

Food benefiting from the Refrigeration Car:

Apples
Beef
Brunost
Cattle
Cheese
Chickens
Cocoa
Coffee
Corn
Fish (only for South America, Northern Europe (Scandinavia))
Fruit
Grain
Ham
Maple Syrup
Meat
Milk
Niter
Noodles
Octopus
Olives
Pasty
Pigs
Plums
Rice
Salt
Sausages
Seafood
Sea Salt
Smoked Ham
Soft Cheese
Soybeans
Sugar
Sugar Beets
Tea
Vegetables

Food not benefiting from the Refrigeration Car:

Aquavit
Beer
Candies
Canned Beer
Canned Fish
Chicha
Chocolate
Cider
Corned Beef
Crispbread
Eel Pie
Fish (except South America, Northern Europe (Scandinavia))
Fruit Brandy
Gingerbread
Hops
Kaolin
Liquor
Mescal
Olive Oil
Pastries
Plum Wine
Rail-O-Mite
Rum
Sake
Salty Liquorice
Sauerkraut
Silk Cocoons
Soy Sauce
Wheat Beer
Whiskey
Wine
Yeast