MTH ELECTRIC TRAINS

According to Pacific Fruit Express by Thompson, Church, and Jones, "The Pacific Fruit Express Company was, by almost any measure, the greatest refrigerator car line in America for virtually its entire life; but it was also more. It became a pivotal part of the phenomenal growth of western agriculture in the first three decades of the twentieth century. It played no small part in the transformation of, for example, the orange, from a rare and treasured object to a commodity which could be enjoyed for breakfast every day of the year." For much of the past century, PFE reefers were a common sight on rails from coast to coast. The R-40-2 cars modeled here were part of a 1000-car order built by Pacific Car and Foundry in 1928, as the PFE upgraded to higher-capacity 40-ton cars, and were the last cars to have wood, rather than steel, framing under their wood-plank exterior. Like the prototype, our models carry a UP herald on one side and a Southern Pacific emblem on the other.