20-756: PFE may refer to: Pacific Fruit Express , a railroad refrigerator car leasing company Parathyroid hormone 1 receptor protein Partial fraction expansion Patriots for Europe , a political group in the European Parliament Pelvic floor exercise , also known as Kegel exercise Perfluoroether , a family of perfluoro polymer Permanent Fatal Error (a French post-rock band by Ulan Bator founder member) Pfizer Inc. , New York Stock Exchange symbol PFE PolyGram Filmed Entertainment Portable Forth Environment , an Open source implementation of
40-700: A main line north from the Feather River Canyon to the Great Northern Railway in northern California. This route, today part of BNSF's Gateway Subdivision , joined the Oakland ;– Salt Lake City main line at the Keddie Wye , a unique combination of two steel trestles and a tunnel forming a triangle of intersecting track . In 1935, the railroad went bankrupt because of decreased freight and passenger traffic caused by
60-906: Is still seen in Roseville, California , site of a major Union Pacific classification yard , where there is a road named "PFE Road". There are a pair of PFE tracks in the Union Pacific Albina Yard in Portland, Oregon and Tucson Yard Tucson, Az. PFE shops in Pocatello, Idaho are still used by the car department. A PFE boxcar is on final display in Cody Park in North Platte, Nebraska behind Centennial 6922. PFE refrigerator cars are available as model railroad cars in several gauges, including N, HO, and Z. Model railcars of
80-881: The American Car and Foundry Company (ACF). In the period between 1901 and 1913, the Pacific Fruit Express was the largest refrigerator car company and transported perishable fruit and vegetables which allowed for the increased production of produce in California. In 1913, executives from the PFE met with fruit growers in Lodi, California , to discuss improvements to communications and loading operations to improve service to growers. PFE executives also promised and additional 3,000 cars to avoid car shortages in previous years. However, conflicts between growers and PFE about
100-647: The Great Depression and had to be reorganized. Western Pacific (WP) operated the California Zephyr passenger train with the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad . The WP handled the "Silver Lady" from Oakland, California, to Salt Lake City, Utah from 1949 to 1970. The Western Pacific owned several connecting short-line railroads . The largest
120-521: The Forth programming language Potential future exposure , the maximum expected credit exposure over a specified period of time Programmer's File Editor Product Family Engineering proudly found elsewhere , the opposite predisposition of not invented here . Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title PFE . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
140-838: The PFE were available as early as 1928. At the Happy Hollow Park & Zoo in San Jose, California there is a rollercoaster ride called the Pacific Fruit Express and the cars are stylized to look like wooden fruit cartons. An episode of Tracks Ahead featured the Pacific Fruit Express in 2002. A car in someone's backyard will be restored and eventually be on display at the Western Pacific museum in Plumas County Western Pacific Railroad The Western Pacific Railroad ( reporting mark WP )
160-681: The Union Pacific Corporation purchased the Western Pacific in 1982, the WP became part of a combined Union Pacific rail system: the Union Pacific Railroad, the Missouri Pacific Railroad , and the WP. The Union Pacific maintains one locomotive in its fleet, Union Pacific 1983 , in a Western Pacific influenced livery . The California Zephyr was the famous Western Pacific passenger train but
180-583: The fleet decreased to 21,500 cars. Increasing competition from highway refrigeration led to decreasing profits and in March 1978, the company went out of business. PFE's assets were divided equally between the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific when the company was split on April 1, 1978. At the time of the closing, the Southern Pacific maintained the name PFE and the new Union Pacific firm
200-747: The last link from Sacramento to Oakland, this company was absorbed into the Central Pacific Railroad in 1870. The second company to use the "western pacific" appellation was the Western Pacific Railway Company , founded in 1903. Under the direction of George Jay Gould I , the Western Pacific Railway proposed to build a standard gauge track connection to the Pacific Coast for his aspiring Gould transcontinental system . Construction
220-415: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=PFE&oldid=1234277893 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Pacific Fruit Express Pacific Fruit Express ( reporting mark PFE )
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#1732775305522240-610: The number of available cars continued through the 1920s The refrigeration cars initially used natural ice including from the Rocky Mountains and as late as the 1940s they were still harvesting ice from the Rockies to use for refrigeration. One account describes the use of pond ice from Oregon from the early 1900s to 1912 when a refrigeration plant was built. In 1923, the Western Pacific Railroad joined
260-685: The venture by leasing its own new fleet of 2775 refrigerator cars to PFE. They were painted in standard PFE colors with only WP heralds on the cars instead of the paired Union Pacific–Southern Pacific markings. The Western Pacific cars were all retired by the late 1950s, among the last wooden refrigerator cars in PFE's fleet. WP ended its partnership with PFE in late 1967 and joined Fruit Growers Express instead. The PFE owned its own repair shops and produced its own ice for refrigeration. As of 1948, it owned and operated 18 ice production plants, supplying two million pounds of ice. Competition from highway refrigerated transportation increased during this period, and
280-604: Was a Class I railroad in the United States . It was formed in 1903 as an attempt to break the near-monopoly the Southern Pacific Railroad had on rail service into northern California. WP's Feather River Route directly competed with SP's portion of the Overland Route for rail traffic between Salt Lake City / Ogden, Utah , and Oakland, California , for nearly 80 years. The Western Pacific
300-467: Was an American railroad refrigerator car leasing company headquartered in San Francisco. At one point, it was the largest refrigerator car operator in the world. The company was founded on December 7, 1906 by E. H. Harriman , as a joint venture between the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific railroads. It began operation on October 1, 1907, with a fleet of 6,600 refrigerator cars built by
320-847: Was financed by the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad , a company in the Gould system, which had lost access to California due to the attempted acquisition of the Southern Pacific Railroad by the Rio Grande's main rival, the Union Pacific Railroad. The Western Pacific Railway acquired the Alameda and San Joaquin Railroad and began construction on what became known as the Feather River Route. Completed in 1909, it
340-1023: Was named the Union Pacific Fruit Express . It is now a Union Pacific subsidiary. In 1970 a large fire destroyed the ice house owned and operated by the PFR in Tucson, Arizona . On September 1, 2022 Union Pacific closed the final Fruit Express shop in North Platte, Nebraska at Bailey Yard and all personnel and equipment were transferred to the North Platte Service Unit Car Department. Modern cars owned by PFE typically carried both UP and SP heralds and either "Union Pacific Fruit Express" or "Southern Pacific Fruit Express". The reporting marks were UPFE for cars operated by Union Pacific or SPFE for cars operated by Southern Pacific. PFE's impact
360-675: Was one of the original operators of the California Zephyr passenger line. In 1982, the Western Pacific was acquired by the Union Pacific Corporation and it was soon merged into the Union Pacific Railroad . The original Western Pacific Railroad (1862–1870) was established in 1862 to build the westernmost portion of the first transcontinental railroad , between Sacramento and San Jose , California (later to Oakland). After completing
380-906: Was the Sacramento Northern Railway , which once reached from San Francisco to Chico, California. Others included the Tidewater Southern Railway , the Central California Traction , the Indian Valley Railroad and the Deep Creek Railroad . In December 1953, the Railroad retired its last steam locomotive from revenue service. At the end of 1970, WP operated 1,187 miles (1,910 km) of road and 1,980 miles (3,190 km) of track, not including its Sacramento Northern and Tidewater Southern subsidiaries. After
400-460: Was the last major rail line connected to California. After Western Pacific Railway Company defaulted on mortgage bonds, its assets were sold in 1916 to The Western Pacific Railroad Company . The original line used 85 lb/yd rail on untreated ties, with no tie plates except on curves over one degree; in 1935 more than half of the main line still had its original rail, most of it having carried 150 million gross tons. In 1931 Western Pacific opened
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