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