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Signature Press, Wilton, CA, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12x9x1. The binding is tight, top corner of the front panel lightly bumped. Text and images unmarked. The dust jacket shows some very light handling, top corner of the front panel lightly bumped, in a mylar cover. 4to. 295pp.
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Merchants Despatch: Its History and Equipment Hardcover - 2011 - 1st Edition
by Roger C. Hinman
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- Title Merchants Despatch: Its History and Equipment
- Author Roger C. Hinman
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Publisher Signature Press, Wilton, CA, Wilton, CA
- Date 2011
- ISBN 9781930013292
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Signature Press, 2011. Hardcover. New. Merchants Despatch traced its origins to a railroad express service begun in 1855, with a connection to the American Express Company. From its earliest years it operated over the lines of the New York Central, and by 1871 its stock was owned by Vanderbilt Lines railroads. However, it was an independent part of the New York Central family. As such, it outlived the Central, and this book carries its history to the year 2000. Initially the rolling stock of Merchants Despatch was box cars to carry railroad ""fast freight,"" but by 1878 refrigerator cars were included. With the passage of years, the MDT fleet would become almost entirely refrigerator cars, maintained and many first built at the sprawling Despatch Shops in East Rochester, New York. Through much of its history, MDT leased cars to railroads other than New York Central, and to a variety of private shippers, as well as managing its own fleet of thousands of cars. By the 1950s the fleet included…
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