I am curious how most of us model orange crates. (I'm working in HO). I'd be curious to hear sizes, source of materials, etc. Any commercial products that are...
Rick- Below is some information from a previous post. Also, in the Files Section is a file titled "Reference Lists". Within that file is a document titled...
Thanks for the information, Bob. I'm fortunate in that I model O scale, so I can use 1/4" square stock cut to 1/2" lenghts to approximate a packing house...
Hi Rick, I guess the stripwood solution is the easiest. Similar crates are also included in the Sunkist building from Alpine/Suydam, with orange dotted labels...
Another way to do a lot of orange crates with beautiful end labels is to buy the package of 100 crates sold by CC Crow for $5. It includes full color orange...
... Hi Bill, Could you provide a more precise link to the crates. I've checked both the CC Crow and the BIS page and found nothing Regards Alain Kap Luxembourg...
Bill--Could you provide a more precise link to the crates? I've checked both the CC Crow and the BIS page and found nothing. Regards Alain Kap Luxembourg Yes...
Here are a few items about reefer traffic from a 1999 post by Richard Hendrickson on the Cajon Pass group (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CAJON/ ). Owing to...
I've been working on a Riverside section of my model railroad and have been looking at all the photos I've collected of the front of the National Orange...
Many of you probably have heard of talented modeler and author Bob Smaus of Los Angeles. His fine layout, featured most recently in the July 2006 issue of...
... Sad to realize that his layout in its present incarnation is no more -- but then, even that one was simply the latest in a progression of layouts that just...
Hello I model in HO Scale. I received CC CROW's concrete packing house and wood crates yesterday. I am starting the model tonight. Does Jim Crowell have a...
In our Photo Section I've added three images of HO scale packing house models scratch-built by Kevin Barnett of Corona, CA. These images are in an album...
When I posted the message below back in February, someone asked me if I had any photos of the PE depot in Corona, CA. At the time I did not. Now, thanks to...
The HO scale concrete packing house mentioned in a recent post is from C. C. Crow ( http://www.cccrow.com/ ). I had the pleasure of meeting him at the NMRA...
If you like reefer blocks you might want to checkout the "Layout of the Month" photo on the home page of Model Railroads Of Southern California at: ...
I have a Green Frog series of Emery Gulash UP videos, and one of them shows a big blow turbine at the head of a high-priority train of reefers that seem to...
I do not what kind of train, but PFE had some reefers that where green like REA reefers that could be used on passenger trains. Also, REA reefers sometimes...
For those of you living in Southern California, here is a chance to see a developing club with a definite citrus industry focus. Bob Chaparro Moderator ...
From the SFRH&MS. Bob Chaparro Moderator ============================ The Santa Fe Railway Historical & Modeling Society will release a new reefer book at its...
By the way, the "old" reefer book is available from Santa Fe Railway Historical & Modeling Society. This is "Refrigerator Cars: Ice Bunker Cars 1884-1979" by...
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