Re: Digest Number 1 WAS "Another One"
This site is found in the group's links section, and is: http://ljames1.home.netcom.com/scph.html Bob Chaparro pepperkay@... wrote:
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Bob Chaparro
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Moderator Off Line
I had a family emergency and was out of town Feb 11 through today. The message feature for this group was set to "unmoderated" before I left, however, I see some messages still required approval
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Bob Chaparro
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Re: Digest Number 1 WAS "Another One"
But of course Historic Packing Houses and Other Industrial Structures in Southern California: http://ljames1.home.netcom.com/scph.html Kind regards, Wilbert ________________________________ Verzonden:
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Wilbert Vossen <wilbert@...>
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Fw: Re: 2nd District Spurs
Hi Cliff, You wrote about the Cucamonga Foothill Spur which brought back many memories. Do you or did you live near Lamanda Park (East Pasadena) area. I was born and raised in Lamanda Park starting in
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John R Gibson <gospeltrain1@...>
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Re: 2nd District Spurs
By the time that I explored the Cucamonga Foothill Spur in the late 1960s, there was little reason to indicate its purpose beyond the spur to the winery along Foothill Blvd. The line ended in a citrus
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cliffprather <lostres33@...>
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Related Citrus Industry Web Site
To all, I am pleased to be a new member to the group. I would like to add an additional link to the file for the Citrus Label Society. It is www.citruslabelsociety.com Dick Schleicher
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superc1718 <superc1718@...>
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Test
Testing the ability to send to list
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ljames1@...
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Re: Just saying 'HI' ...
Norman E. Kay II wrote: Lots of photos at http://ljames1.home.netcom.com/scph.html Jim Lancaster
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ljames1@...
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Re: Just saying 'HI' ...
Re: "Saw the notice and joined up pronto ..." As did I, although I'm not interested in modeling the Santa Fe in any kind of three-dimensional but reduced scale (O, HO, N, . . .) sense. I am interested
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Don Winter
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Re: Just saying 'HI' ...
Pepper--before you start scratch building a packing house you might check into Yesteryear's HO model of the National Orange Co. PH that was located in Riverside, Calif. until it burned down in 2001.
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William Messecar
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and another one....
Hi all, Decided to join as well when I saw the notice. Like a few others I'm trying to build a model railroad with an ATSF So.Cal. citrus theme. I've been studying Sanborn maps and Jim Lancasters
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Wilbert Vossen <wilbert@...>
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Re: Just saying 'HI' ...
Lots of photos at http://ljames1.home.netcom.com/scph.html
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Jim Lancaster <ljames1@...>
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Just saying 'HI' ...
Saw the notice and joined up pronto ... Remember way back when my folks used to take me to Santa Ana (we lived in San Diego) and we passed what seemed like miles and miles of reefers, ice docks and
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Norman E. Kay II <pepperkay@...>
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Re: 2nd District Spurs
Conditioning of refrigerator cars referred to their being reconditioned after usage in service. When cars were returned to the San Bernardino yard they were inspected to see if they needed any
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William Messecar
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Re: 2nd District Spurs
Bill, Can you explain exactly what "refrigerator cars after they had been conditioned" means? I've seen this "conditioning" mentioned in other places but I've never seen a good explanation. I take it
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Dorr Altizer <dorr@...>
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Re: 2nd District Spurs
Dave and list. The Upland Foothill spur as it was called went up to the Cucamonga Mesa packing house on 19th street--probably 5 miles north of the Upland Depot. In fact the structure is still standing
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William Messecar
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Re: 2nd District Spurs
I have been trying to figure out what these were for for a long time. The agent at Upland told me that the spur there was used to store empty cars waiting for loading. When I asked the question as a
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yingstco <flyingy@...>
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2nd District Spurs
There was a l Bill Messecar Santafe-Mail@... The Santa Fe had several long spurs running north off their trackage between Pasadena and San Bernardino. One was the Cucamonga-Foothill spur north
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William Messecar
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Re: Alternative Refrigerator Car Uses
There was a short lived company that provided metal cans for the nursery industry that was located at Browning (near Tustin)on the Santa Fe's Venta/Irvine Spur. The untreated cans (the cans were
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cliffprather <lostres33@...>
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Re: Alternative Refrigerator Car Uses
The Santa Fe made quite a few efforts to increase the back haul business for refrigerator cars returning empty from the east. I have records of some testimony of how they tried to organize LCL (Less
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William Messecar
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