A look at the operation and roster of privately-owned ice-bunker reefer cars. Contains a marvelous sequence of the icing process atop an icing dock in 1962.
Contents: Introduction, Icing Refrigerator Cars, Icing Facilities; American Refrigerator Transit (N&W, MoPac, Wabash); Armour Co., Cudahy Car Lines; Fruit Growers Express (Burlington Refrigerator Express Co. and Western Fruit Express Co.); General American Transportation Corp. (EJ&E, Kingan, Libby's); Merchants Despatch (IC, NYC, National Packing, Oscar Mayer); Morrell, Rath and Mather Stock Car Corp.; North American Car Corp.; North Western Refrigerator Line; Pacific Fruit Express; Railway Express Agency; Swift; Union Refrigerator Transit (Soo Line, Minneapolis & St. Louis, Oscar Mayer, Milwaukee Road, Needham Packing, Sioux City Dressed Beef, Raskin Packing, Dubuque Packing, Rock Island, IBP); Western Refrigerator Line (Green Bay & Western); Wilson Car Lines; Epilogue.
Hardcover with jacket, 128 pages, standard portrait size, Color images with captions.
