I'm having trouble recalling, there was a very nice MR article about 1-2 years back about painting Southern California backdrops using packing crate labels as...
... ===================================================================== Anyone know where I could find or purchase copies of these articles? I do not have...
I have added new photos to the East Highlands, CA packing house web page http://tinyurl.com/ajt79o including a link to three photos of the East Highlands depot...
Sometimes contributions to my web sites slip through the crack and get somewhat lost on my hard drive. Such was the case with some photos of an apple packing...
http://www.archive.org/details/sanbernardinocou00los This recent addition appears to be around 1900 or earlier- has a few citrus views There is another that...
Great photos. Especially the old packing house views. Is there a date set for the opening of the museum at the Etiwanda depot? What organization will be...
Jim Hayes of Portland, Oregon, maintains a site of current and discontinued Sunshine Models resins freight car kits. The site is: www.sunshinekits.com While...
I have received 110 photos from Marty Quaas covering the railroads of the Inland Empire of Southern California - ATSF, SP, UP and PE - as well as packing...
Here are some reefer images I found on Flickr. Bob Chaparro Moderator ============================= http://www.flickr.com/photos/88055369@N00/2317864049/ ...
Bob, I am guessing most members of this group know or have seen it already, but if you go to www.railcarphotos.com there are several great images of SFRC, SFRD...
Was there any rule of thumb on the row and orange tree spacing in orange groves? We're starting to install an orange grove in the Sandcut location of our...
Doug- Until recent times, tree spacing in a typical grove for oranges trees was in rows from 22 to 24 feet apart, with the trees 20 to 24 feet apart within the...
Persons requesting members of this group join them on Grouply will be banned from this group. By now many of us are aware of the problems associated with...
Hey Doug, Finally had time to go out and measure a couple of blocks of our oranges. In our oldest planting (circa 1950) the distance between trees is 18' and...
The practice of planting yound trees close together and removing the less vigorous trees goes back to at least the 1910s from references I have seen. As Neil...
Citrus crops weren't harvested continuously, there were slck times. The questions then become: What else might citrus packing houses have loaded when citrus...
Slack Time was used for cleaning, repairing and any improvement to the plant. Now if it was a Sunkist packing house the office was still open and one could...
I found a collection of fourteen articles from the original PROTOTYPE MODELER Magazine in a book from the publisher. One of the articles is from the...
Links to packing houses added. JL ... (http://ljames1.home.netcom.com/scph_orange_vp.html) house to send a case to family members at Christmas. The office...
This is an image from the 1958 Western Pacific annual report. The caption reads, "New $40,000 Preco Mechanical car icing machine installed at Stockton Icing...
Bob, Today I was reading an article from August 10, 1953 RAILWAY AGE which it talks about the "Cross Country Potato Race" about the operation on the Santa Fe....
As most of you know, reefer loads had to be protected from extreme cold as well as extreme heat. Refrigerator cars were heated with portable heaters lowered...
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