Billboard Refrigerator Cars

by Richard H. Hendrickson and Edward S. Kaminski

Table of Contents

	Foreword	5
	Acknowledgements	6
Chapter 1	Historical Background	9
Chapter 2	Early Billboard Refrigerator Cars	19
Chapter 3	Billboard Reefers of the 1920s and '30s: Meat Packers	35
Chapter 4	North American Despatch	47
Chapter 5	North Western Refrigerator and Western Refrigerator Lines	73
Chapter 6	Merchants Despatch Transportation Company and Northern Refrigerator Car Company	93
Chapter 7	General American Refrigerator Express	123
Chapter 8	Union Refrigerator Transit Lines	135
Chapter 9	Quaker City Refrigerator Express	157
Chapter 10	Other Owners and Leasing Companies	167
Chapter 11	End of an Era	181
Chapter 12	Postwar Renaissance	187
	Postwar Color Gallery	200
Appendix 1	Historical Color Renditions	207
Appendix 2	Summary of ICC Ruling	209
	Bibliography	213
	Index	215