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Re: Digest Number 7 - WAS "NEW FILE"
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John was kind enough to provide the URL off list to me, so now I have it
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Re: New file uploaded on citrus modeling
Norman E. Kay II
--- In citrusmodeling@..., "John R. signor"
Since this is the Citrus Modeling Group I went ahead and uploaded aHi John: I can't locate the file you loaded ... do you have the URL for it ?? ... Thanks, Pepper Kay Garland, TX |
Re: New file uploaded on citrus modeling
Nice photo's! I'm jealous. But they give me some ideas that I hadn't
thought of. --- In citrusmodeling@..., "John R. signor" <sstudio@s...> wrote: Since this is the Citrus Modeling Group I went ahead and uploaded a |
Re: Microscale Sunkist decals
Tom Cockle
I noticed that the Microscale 87-771 and 48-299 sets do say "1955+" on them. I knew that the stylized orange logos would not be appropriate for my 1955 layout, but figured the shadowed block lettering--which figured so prominently on packing houses, usually on a dark blue background--was not so recent. I seem to recall seeing it in older photos, but may have a hazy memory there! Jim Lancaster can certainly confirm if it shows up in pre-1955 photos.
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I certainly hope Microscale would take up your earlier version, as I have several packing houses that could use them. Tom Cockle Fieldbrook CA Bill Messecar wrote: They are very nice sets however most of the Sunkist logos are |
Placentia Citrus Packing Houses
In 1910 the first railway through Placentia, CA was opened. There
were six large packing ouses built soon after, right along the track. They were Placentia-Olinda, So. Cal. Fruit Exchange, Randolph, Strain, California Vegetable Union and Cobb Vegetable Company. C.C. Chapman had a siding on his Santa Ysabel Ranch and a large packing house. Placentia shipped more carloads of freight than any other place in the southland except Los Angelos. They shipped 800 carloads the first season. The biggest year for Placentia was 1953. That year 4,200 carloads were shipped. |
PE in Corona
cliffprather
In 1952, the Pacific Electric Rwy served the following packing
houses at Corona: Orange Heights Orange Assn. Houses 1 and 2. These were on the eastside of town. Jameison Co. It was on the westside of town and required the PE run through town on 3rd St. The line was still in service when the Riverside Freeway was built. Other companies with sidings/spur were Richfield Oil, Union Oil, Pacific Warehouse and Storage (dried beans and Fertilizer)and S.P. Rosenbaum (Grain and Feed). From a PE issued list of Idustries and warehouses Cliff Prather |
I am new!
Thanks Bob for inviting me to your group. I am currently involved
with the Pacific Railroad Society, Pacific Railroad Musuem in San Dimas, CA. Our museum is in the former Santa Fe Depot that served 5 surrounding packing houses. In the good old days, the stations of the Pasadena Sub were located half a mule day apart. Farmers could bring a load from the field to the packing house and return in one day. Notice the locations between Monrovia and San Bernardino. The Pasadena Sub produced 10% of the Santa Fe feight in good years. I recall a gentleman who had a drayage business on Etiwanda Ave. He kept the mules at the North end of the street so that the trips to the lemon packing sheds were downhill and they came home empty on the up slope. There are still a few eucalylptus tree rows that protected the groves from the winds. The Proctor Family created Arrowhead Lake to water lemons in the San Bernardino area. I believe the Proctor Family still harvests lemons in Ventura Co. Before Henry Ford, the fruit was moved in lug boxes from the field. A man would swing a box up on the wagon and his partner would stack them 5 high. It was tricky to load the last stacks; you had to stand on a picking laddre and swing the boxes into the load. At the processing plant, a man would push a hand truck under a stack, pull it back, turn and push it into the shed. The cars were loaded by gangs. Boxes were stacked about 5 high and bags were put on top. The load had to be carefully loaded so that the air would circulate. Summer loads were cooled. Depending on the crop and season, ice was needed. In the Jul Aug and Sept, cars had to be precooled before spotting them at the packing house. Otherwise the first load of ice was melted before the car returned to San Bernardino. In the winter, citrus was protected from freezing by car heaters that were installed in the ice chests. These cars displayed a skull and cross bones on the door because they may have become dangerously toxic. More later Lindsay |
Re: Find the maps here
Hey that really worked. Now I can study to my hearts content. Thanks
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a lot. GaryIII --- In citrusmodeling@..., "Gary" <garyiii@h...> wrote:
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Re: Neat Maps Where to find?
Hi,
A couple of years ago the San Jose library had the username and password to the Sanborn maps listed on their website. Luckily I copied it then. You can go directly to the site of Sanborn Click on "Browse maps" and then use the login-code from the San Jose Public Library: username: SJPLREMOTE password: WELCOME Now you have access to the Sanborn maps of California. The University of Buffalo had a similar agreement and with their account you could access all maps but alas, they cancelled their subscription I've heard. But the above gives you at least the California maps :) Kind regards, Wilbert Vossen -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: Gary [mailto:garyiii@...] Verzonden: woensdag 16 februari 2005 21:48 Aan: citrusmodeling@... Onderwerp: [citrusmodeling] Re: Neat Maps Where to find? I went to the web site referenced below and it requires a San Jose Library card to get access. I called them and asked how to get a San Jose Library card (Middle Calif)since I live in Placentia, CA (Southern Calif 400 miles away) and I talked to three or four people and nobody new how to I could get one short of going to San Jose and establishing residence. Any ideas?? Garyiii --- In citrusmodeling@..., "William Messecar" <santafe-mail@c...> wrote: Gary--you can pull up all the Sanborne maps of Placentia you want as When replying to a message, be sure to eliminate unnecessary or redundant text. If your reply does not directly address the original topic, add further text to the subject line. Please show respect and consideration for other points of view in your replies. Yahoo! Groups Links |
Re: Neat Maps Where to find?
I went to the web site referenced below and it requires a San Jose
Library card to get access. I called them and asked how to get a San Jose Library card (Middle Calif)since I live in Placentia, CA (Southern Calif 400 miles away) and I talked to three or four people and nobody new how to I could get one short of going to San Jose and establishing residence. Any ideas?? Garyiii --- In citrusmodeling@..., "William Messecar" <santafe-mail@c...> wrote: Gary--you can pull up all the Sanborne maps of Placentia you want as |
Re: Find the maps here
I went to the web site referenced below and it requires a San Jose
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Library card to get access. I called them and asked how to get a San Jose Library card (Middle Calif)since I live in Placentia, CA (Southern Calif 400 miles away) and I talked to three or four people and nobody new how to I could get one short of going to San Jose and establishing residence. Any ideas?? Garyiii --- In citrusmodeling@..., "ten87tracks" <ed@h...> wrote:
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Re: New file uploaded to citrusmodeling
John R. signor
Thank you for uploading this file. We are working on Santa Fe 3rd district citrus activity for the Warbonnet magazine and the spurs included have been a mystery...
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Editor, The Warbonnet Santa Fe Railway Historical & Modeling Society |
Re: New Member says Hello
Terry N Taylor
Central CA Packing Houses and more to come. Now you really have my attention. Thanks!!!!
On Feb 15, 2005, at 9:32 PM, ljames1@... wrote: Terry N Taylor terryntaylor@... / 805-595-9535 Modeling the Santa Fe Ry in the San Joaquin Valley in 1953 |
Re: Neat Maps Where to find?
Gary--you can pull up all the Sanborne maps of Placentia you want as
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they are available to the public on the San Jose library web site. If you need more information on how to access them contact me off list. Bill Messecar Santafe-Mail@... -----Original Message-----
From: Gary [mailto:garyiii@...] Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 9:12 PM To: citrusmodeling@... Subject: [citrusmodeling] Neat Maps Where to find? Ed posted some good maps of ancient Corona. Those maps were very nice. However, I am particulalry interested in Placentia, CA citrus (including Atwood, Richfield, and a couple of other places I don't remember right now). In general, the area from Fullerton, going east to the Santa Ana river "pinch" just west of Prado and Corona. Where can I find access to similar maps of this area (ca 1900 thru 1940)? GaryIII@... When replying to a message, be sure to eliminate unnecessary or redundant text. If your reply does not directly address the original topic, add further text to the subject line. Please show respect and consideration for other points of view in your replies. Yahoo! Groups Links |
Re: Digest Number 4
They are very nice sets however most of the Sunkist logos are
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modern--that is from the 1970s when the current Sunkist logo was created. The National Orange signage is fine but the stylized orange is much later. The Sunkist logo with shadowed block letters came into use in June 1955 and the logo for the 40's and most of the 50's was Sunkist in outline fashion. The above is based on information and photo copies provided me by the Sunkist marketing department. I've had decal sheets made with the correct logos and used it on my scratch built Bradford Brothers PH. It's paired with another sheet that includes words and phrases that would provide names for almost every packing house you can imagine and many locations on the Santa Fe LA Division second and third district plus Redlands. Might see if Microscale is interested in producing this set or something like it? Bill Messecar Santafe-Mail@... -----Original Message-----
From: Tom Cockle [mailto:tcockle@...] Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 8:28 PM To: citrusmodeling@... Cc: kapa@... Subject: Re: [citrusmodeling] Digest Number 4 Microscale has sign sets for Sunkist. HO set 87-771 has the large Sunkist lettering in a size about 1/2" high by 4 1/2" wide. If you want a larger sign you can use the O sets 48-299 and 48-300. Tom Cockle Fieldbrook CA Alain Kap wrote: One project I'm in currently is the depot of Capistrano and itssurrounding buildings/industries etc. South of the depot is what I suppose a packing house. I could not locate any information or picture about what kind of brand it packed (Sunkist or ????). On a photo I think to see 2 reefers side by side. How was the track arrangement at the packing house, siding, stub ended tracks. What did the packing house look like. I will only need a track side shot as space considerations limit it to a half relief building. Packing Houses usually had large Signs of their brandnames painted on the building. Are there any of these signs available that are suitable to print out and apply to a model structure. I'm particularly thinking of the Sunkist sign.< When replying to a message, be sure to eliminate unnecessary or redundant text. If your reply does not directly address the original topic, add further text to the subject line. Please show respect and consideration for other points of view in your replies. Yahoo! Groups Links |
Re: New Member says Hello
Hoot Gibson wrote ...
... I do want to say thank you Bob for starting this group which is long overdue but I have always been surprised that Jim Lancaster did not start such a group long ago but it would seem the you are the chosen person so thank you again for your interest in the Citrus Industries and the railroads that served these industries. Hoot, I've got more than I can handle with a big backlog of material for the packing house web site - a lot of it color photos from Bob Chaparro. Besides, Bob's retired and has lot's of time to spend on the internet so makes a perfect list owner :) I did update the site recently with a lot of Central California packing house photos - again a lot of them were Bob's photos. And I've got more Central California stuff to add from other contributors. Plus more Southern California cities from Bill Messecar. On Sunday March 6, Sunshine Models is sponsoring their annual Prototype Modelers Meeting in Buena Park at the Holiday Inn on Beach Blvd. Registration starts at 9 AM with the first presentation - Southern California Citrus Packing Houses by yours truly - at 10 AM. Some of the material is from the web site but I'm also using a lot of new material. It will cover primarily Orange County plus Corona and maybe Riverside. Hope some of you will be there. Jim Lancaster Tustin, CA |
Neat Maps Where to find?
Ed posted some good maps of ancient Corona.
Those maps were very nice. However, I am particulalry interested in Placentia, CA citrus (including Atwood, Richfield, and a couple of other places I don't remember right now). In general, the area from Fullerton, going east to the Santa Ana river "pinch" just west of Prado and Corona. Where can I find access to similar maps of this area (ca 1900 thru 1940)? GaryIII@... |
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