Author Name: Anthony W. Thompson, Robert J. Church and Bruce H. Jones
Title: Pacific Fruit Express Second Edition
Binding: Hard cover with full color cover jacket.
Size: 8.75 x 11.75in., 464 pages
Publisher: Signature Press 2000
ISBN Number: 1930013035
Seller ID: SP112
The product of six years of research by each of the authors, this 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 classes of wood and steel ice refrigerator cars, 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, along with an Appendix of 34 pages, a fully detailed bibliography, and an index.
The book has been re-issued as a second edition. A number of corrections and additions were made in the text, and improved photographs were included in some cases; the total number of corrected pages is about 100. Furthermore, 56 new color images, as well as tabular equipment summaries, were also added, bringing 32 new pages to the book. In all, about a third of the pages in the new edition are new or revised. There are now 744 total photographs in the book (64 in color), along with 52 drawings, maps, and other graphics. A triple-width foldout map of the PFE system by cartographer John Signor is retained. This new edition returns a classic book to print in a bigger and still better version of one of the standard texts about railcar and operations history. There is no comparable book about any North American freight car fleet, and few with even similar coverage of both history and operations of the company.
Table of Contents: Introduction and Acknowledgements; Section I -- The Company 1. Company History 2. Company Organization; Section II -- The Car Fleet 3. PFE's Predecessors 4. The Early Wood Cars 5. PFE's Roaring Twenties 6. New Directions 7. Rebuilding the Fleet 8. The Steel Ice Cars 9. Mechanical Refrigerators 10. Flat Cars and Trailers; Section III -- Operations 11. Car Shops 12. Natural Ice Plants 13. Ice Manufacturing and Ice Transfer Plants 14. Western Perishables 15. PFE in Action; Appendix: System Map (foldout); Bibliography; Index. 52 maps and drawings, 744 photographs, index, bibliography. Publication date: August 15, 2000. Retail $75.00.
Price = 60.00 USD
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