<p>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. </p>
<p> 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.</p>

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

Anthony W. Thompson

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