Pacific Fruit Express: The World's Largest Refrigerated Car Company - Hardcover

Anthony W Thompson; Robert J. Church; Bruce H. Jones

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0963379127 ISBN 13: 9780963379122

Publisher: Central Valley Railroad Publications, 1992

Synopsis

This is a thorough and complete history of the world's largest refrigerator car operator, the Pacific Fruit Express Company. The 432-page book has 663 photos (some in color), scale car drawings, shop track layouts, system map, paint scheme drawings, and accurate color drift panels. It includes an appendix, a complete index, and a comprehensive bibliography.

Six years in preparation, the book is a must for the historian and serious modeler. Covered in detail are company history, management organization, turn of the century predecessor refrigerator cars, all wood and steel ice refrigerator car classes, mechanical refrigerators, trailers, flat cars and containers, car repair shops, natural ice and manufactured ice plants, western agaricultural developemnt and produce shipping, and an album of PFE in action across America.

About this title

Review:

This book is comprehensive, carefully researched, and abundantly illustrated. It is an indispensable resource for scale modelers as well as historians. -- Richard Hendrickson, Railroad Model Craftsman magazine

From Scientific American:

Thorough research has yielded much information and is well synthesized into a whole. The company, operations, and freight cars have been given their due. This is the finest book of its kind ever published.

About this edition

• Publisher: Central Valley Railroad Publications
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0963379127
• ISBN 13: 9780963379122
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 432