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Show P.F.E. Approves Rebuilding Plan Approval of a $10,000,000 program for the rebuilding and repair of refrigerator re-frigerator cars during the first six months of 1940 has been announced by the Pacific Fruit Express Company, Com-pany, bringing the company's completed com-pleted and planned expenditures to approximately $20,000,000 for ' improvements im-provements to equipment alone since Jaunary, 1939. The 1939 budget provided for the rebuilding of 2300 cars, 500 of which remain to be completed before the end of the year. By July, 1940, an additional 2500 cars will be rebuilt in readiness for seasonal peak handling hand-ling of western perishable crops. "Rebuilding" ' a refrigerator car means replacement of the box part of the car with an entirely new superstructure unit, the only parts of the original car going into the rebuilt car being the underframes and trucks. Jointly owned by Union Pacific and Southern Pacific railroads, Pacific Pa-cific Fruit Express is the largest refrigerator re-frigerator car service in the world, having more than 38,000 cars in its fleet for the transportation of western west-ern fruits, vegetables and other perishable per-ishable crops to the distant markets of the middle west and east. |