A post by Raymond Breyer on the Facebook Pre-Depression Era Railroad Modelers group.
Description:
KCFE 20185, ACF Chicago, 9/24/1900.
The late Bill Welch commented:
This is one of Ogden Armour's companies before he consolidated his various reefer entities into the Armour owned Fruit Growers Express that would then become the railroad owned Fruit Growers Express Company in May 1920.
My Notes:
Before the consent agreement broke the functional monopoly of the meat packers over produce transportation, cars such as this carried produce rather than meat. After the agreement PFE was created and Santa Fe was able to expand its produce hauling business.
Bob Chaparro