[1] Fruit Growers Express received ownership of 4,280 railroad cars, rolling stock repair operations in Alexandria, Virginia and Jacksonville, Florida, and a number of ice houses and railcar servicing facilities on the east coast of the United States, which it served.

In February 1928 FGE formed the National Car Company, a railcar manufacturing unit as a subsidiary to its refrigerated food transport business.

FGE insulated boxcars were used to transport items that needed protection from heat or freezing but not necessarily separate cooling such as that provided by refrigerated railcars.

[5] With increased competition from trucks hauling produce on highways, and the consolidation of the railroad industry in the 1980s spurred by the Staggers Rail Act in 1980, Fruit Growers Express, as a consortium, found that its markets shrank.

With the mergers that formed the Norfolk Southern Railway in 1982 and CSX Transportation in 1986, and the subsequent acquisition of both companies, a duopoly of major railroads with vast resources and routes was effectively created on the east coast and midwest, eroding further need for FGE as an independent entity.

The company is now a paper entity controlled by CSX Corporation, the successor railroad to the majority of Fruit Growers Express final ownership.