PACIFIC FRUIT EXPRESS

Thompson, Anthony W., Robert J. Church, and Bruce H. Jones

ISBN 10: 0963379127 / ISBN 13: 9780963379122

Published by Central Valley Railroad Publications [Signature Press], Wilton, CA, 1992

About this Item

Copy number157 of 300 numbered copies signed by Thompson, Church, and Jones on the special limitation page. A thorough and complete history of PFE, from its founding in 1906 until its demise in 1985. 432 pages with numerous photographs, map and diagrams. Fine in fine and bright dust jacket. Appears as new.

Seller Inventory # 053343

Bibliographic Details

• Title: PACIFIC FRUIT EXPRESS
• Publisher: Central Valley Railroad Publications [Signature Press], Wilton, CA
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0963379127
• ISBN 13: 9780963379122
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Railroads, Traction, Streetcars, Interurbans

About this title

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.

Reviews

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.

A giant subsidiary of two major railroads, usually only referred to as a sidelight, ha sbeen thoroughly researcheed and accurately presented. An exceptional book.