See Figures 39-41 at http://scph003.home.netcom.com/scph_riverside_corona.html for an orange juice plant. Also Figures 18-23 for an earlier lemon juice plant....
Thank you Jim. I suspected that these were the examples I was looking for. With a little photoshopping, several of these pictures can be used for backdrops...
... factories? The Sunkist centennial book "Heritage of Gold" has an aerial view of the Ontario plant adjacent to the SP. For a lemon plant on the ATSF see Jim...
Rick asked about pictures of locations where you could use the new Athearn 50's reefers. The place to check is Jim Lancaster's web site of packing houses and...
For those of you who model in S scale, a low relief citrus shed now is available from Showcase Miniatures. The prototype shed was once part of the San Fernando...
As some of you know, I have two other Yahoo railroad groups. I wanted to let members of this group who reside in Southern California know that my Model...
For some time I've been curious why Bruce Petty refers to this packing house on his web page as the San Fernando Lemon Grower's Association. The city of San...
I am looking for photos of the "street" side of the Riverside ATSF station, for the purpose of scratchbuilding the station in HO scale. I am found "track" side...
Be sure to paste BOTH LINES into your browser to access the image. Bob Chaparro Moderator ... packing ... Association. ... Bruce ... Association [ ... ...
Jim, you need to purchase the 2nd quarter 2002 issue of the Warbonnet. It has a nice article on Riverside in the Forties and on page 9 is a photo (small but...
You're right Jim, I need to change the name on that webpage to the San Fernando Heights Orange Association. Will try to get this done soon. Bruce Petty...
Jim, if pictures of the station in it's current condition (restored?, remodeled?) will work I can get some for you...it's on my way home from the bank on...
The Operations SIG has compiled a list of industries throughout North America for use in creating waybills for traffic moving to, from or via model railroads....
OK Bob Having grown up in the Crescenta Valley,I know no railline entered Sunland, the closest was the Espee in Burbank. The ATSF was no where close to...
Tom- This is a win-win. You AND the Operation SIG are BOTH correct. If you look at the headings on the chart, both towns and stations are part of the same...
I looked at the OPSIG's industry list about a month ago. It's a good resource but I noted that a number of packing houses are missing. When I get some time...
I think the San Fernando Lemon Assn. was in the other building just across from the Mission. That building is still standing -- it is used for storage now....
When I was a wee lad in the 1950s most of my small fleet of HO rolling stock consisted of R-T-R Marx cars and built-up Athearn kits. The Athearn kits, then as...
... For a mostly accurate map of the area, see http://www.geocities.com/oldlahistory/pesfv.html The frozen orange juice plant was originally the San Fernando...
About a year ago I created a web page for San Fernando but never linked it to the Packing House home page. It is now linked but you can get to it directly at...
I am looking for some information on the Ventura County Railroad, as it existed in the early 1950's. I know there have been some historical articles at...
Thanks for posting the photo, Bob! I found those two reefers at a swap meet at Orange Empire Railway Museum awhile back and snagged them at $6.00 for the...
... wood- ... Bob Be aware that the paint scheme with mono color on the sides (laders, grabs, door hardware etc. being same color as car) makes these cars ...
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The Excel file contains a list of recently active California citrus packing houses (plus a few in Yuma, AZ) created by combining a 1998 list compiled by Rincon...
Does anyone have some history or pictures of the Ventura Co. RR or know a link as to where I can find this info. ? I want to model some of those yellow engines...
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