No, it doesn't have to do with where the cars are returned. One car is named Oak Brook (no railroad at all), and another is named Honolulu (good luck with that one!). Others carry names of geographic features.
This was probably started as a way to honor locations important to Cryo-Trans or its shippers, but as the fleet expanded, so did the names. You can find the name of nearly every large city, mational park, river, mountain peak, lake, etc. They even accepted some suggestions from outsiders. I know, because CRYX 3099 is named Proviso--I suggested that.
Cryo-Trans is definitely in its second generation of cars (mechanically-cooled instead of cryogenically); as the older cars were retired their names were given to newer ones. The company has close to 1000 cars, each with a different name.
Carl
Railroader Emeritus (practiced railroading for 46 years--and in 2010 I finally got it right!)
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