Group, New/old member returning. I located this photo: What about this sign at Whittier, Calif: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ozfan22/3482753654/ By the...
Very Important - If you receive a message on "Yahoo! Customer Care Satisfaction Survey" DO NOT provide your account information. This appears to be a hoax...
Below is a link to a restoration project for PFE 55524. This reefer was built for the Western Pacific in 1923 or 1924. This is a project of the Black Butte...
The Escondido History Center (http://www.escondidohistory.org/content/home/visit-us.htm <http://www.escondidohistory.org/content/home/visit-us.htm> ) has ...
The following is a post from the PennysWest group that I belong to. My question for the group. Why would the PFE and SFRD reefer be return to LA with oranges...
The Upland Lemon Assn lasted until 1984 (see Citrus Roots...Our Lagacy by Richard H. Barker) and used the Santa Fe occasionally into the 80s. The Pacific...
Folks, I am copy entries from a 1892 (June) Auditors Ledger of Records of Bills Entered for the Colorado Midland Railway Co. Entry 197 for the month of June...
Cliff's post brought back a lot of memories and for grins I went to GoogleEarth and put in the address of the Sunkist Plant in Ontario where my father used to...
The following is a list of industries that the Pacific Electric served in 1952. Each industry has "Citrus Fruit" as a commodity handled by that indusry. Cliff...
We don't often talk about the Pacific Electric Railway on this group, however, they did handle some citrus traffic in their day. Courtesy of Cliff Prather,...
In our never-ending quest for accuracy, we're always asking the question, "How much of (what) was harvested (where)?" Over the weekend, I found some wonderful...
Thought I'd throw this out to the group... While doing a search on line for HO Scale orange crates, I stumbled onto a site that was selling HO Scale...
Below is a link to a "Grower's Statement" for a Carl Schaefer covering the 1936-1937 season. This is a summary of fruit delivered and its disposition at a San...
There is no selling allowed by members on this site as selling tends to dominate posts, gets difficult to control and can become a source of disputes. With...
Below are two paint formulas for Santa Fe reefers. This information came from the document, "Rules Governing the Painting of Structures, Passenger and Freight...
Howdy, On my free-lance layout I built a "Trade Center" and I bought some decals for it. One decal is for "Northwestern Fruit and Produce Co", the other for...
The Santa Fe Railway Historical & Modeling Society will hold a mini-meet on February 5-6, 2010, in California at the San Bernardino Amtrak/Santa Fe Depot, from...
I came across a good citrus industry book by a local author, John Anthony Adams. The book is "Then And Now: The Vanishing Orange In Southern California"....
Most of you know that citrus growers and grower associations greatly valued their individual brand names for oranges, lemons and other citrus. These brand...
I just added to my photo collection, posting about 10 photos of Corona, CA on my N scale layout. The buildings that you will see: -Corona Citrus Association...
Here is a notice of an upcoming historical presentation from the Rialto Historical Society. Bob Chaparro Moderator =================== For those who might have...
The strange-looking machine seen on the link below is a Cobb temperature regulator. http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assetserver/controller/view/CHS-40047 There...
From the Santa Fe Magazine, Volume 17, is this brief note about developments in Fullerton (CA) in 1922: "A new spur track soon is to be installed. It will be...
You probably have this, but there is a great website with photos from the depression and WWII that has a lot of color photos from that era. These are the ones...
