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Author:	Anthony W. Thompson
Co-authors:	Robert J. Church, Bruce H. Jones
Title:	Pacific Fruit Express
Publisher:	Signature Press
Country:	USA
Date:	Jun 1992
Format:	Hardcover
Genre:	Transport
ISBN-10:	0963379127
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WPLives 24th Jul 2021		Review 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. From The New Yorker A giant subsidiary of two major railroads, usually only referred to as a sidelight, has been thoroughly researcheed and accurately presented. An exceptional book. 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 ✔︎ Helpful Review?



WPLives 24th Jul 2021		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 agricultural development and produce shipping, and an album of PFE in action across America.

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