Fruit Growers Express (FGE) was a railroad refrigerator car leasing company that began as a produce-hauling subsidiary of Armour and Company's private refrigerator car line. Armour controlled both the packing operations and the transport insulated railroad car line, and its customers had complained they were overcharged.

Fruit Growers Express (FGE) was a railroad refrigerator car leasing company that began as a produce-hauling subsidiary of Armour and Company's private refrigerator car line.

Nov 8, 2024 · Fruit Growers Express (FGE) was a railroad refrigerator car leasing company that began as a produce-hauling subsidiary of Armour and Company's private refrigerator car line. Its customers complained they were overcharged.

By 1926 FGE had expanded service into the Pacific Northwest and the Midwest through its partly owned cooperating subsidiaries, Western Fruit Express and Burlington Fruit Express.

Feb 19, 2022 · Just received today from Trainz the Atlas FGE 40' steel reefer. Both these cars are great (and the correct paint scheme for me). I have a tendency to not go into paint schemes in much detail after 1950. Reread one of the few articles I can find on FGE cars (someone needs to do a book, especially the politics).

Fruit Growers Express (FGE) was a railroad refrigerator car leasing company that began as a produce-hauling subsidiary of Armour and Company’s private refrigerator car line. Its customers complained they were overcharged and in 1919 the Federal Trade Commission ordered the company’s sale for anti-trust reasons.

FGEX #56415 is an RS-type car, meaning refrigerator cars using ice or ice & salt to cool their cargo space, and was one of 1,567 cars in FGE's #55000-56566 series of ventilated Class C cars.

Nov 8, 2024 · Western Fruit Express (WFE) was a railroad refrigerator car leasing company formed by the Fruit Growers Express and the Great Northern Railway on July 18, 1923 in order to compete with the Pacific Fruit Express and Santa Fe Refrigerator Despatch in the Western United States. The arrangement added 3,000 cars to the FGE's existing equipment pool.

On July 18, 1923, Fruit Growers Express (FGE) and the Great Northern Railway formed the Western Fruit Express (WFE) to compete with the Pacific Fruit Express and Santa Fe Refrigerator Despatch in the western United States.