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PFE 64446 (R-30-21)
PFE 64446 (R-30-21) A post from the Kohs & Company website. Description: An Ernest Albright photo. Taken on the team tracks on Esplanade Street in Toronto in 1962. The photo shows an R-30-21 that was originally rebuilt into this configuration in the mid- to late 1940s. My Notes: It appears some of the wood sheathing has been replaced. Good reference photo for weathering. Bob Chaparro Moderator |
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SP 8669 & PFE Reefers On The Rock Island
SP 8669 & PFE Reefers On The Rock Island A post by Christopher Clipper on the Facebook Remembering The Rock Island group. Description: An eastbound SP perishables train on the Rock Island departs Kelly Yard in Silvis, Illinois, 1975. John Dziobko photographer. Bob Chaparro Moderator |
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PFE 11454 (R-40-27)
PFE 11454 (R-40-27) Built in May 1957 this car wears in the 1961 paint scheme. It also shows the black and ends and silver roof that was applied to these cars as well.? PFE 11454 is part of the collection at the Feather River Rail Society¡¯s Western Pacific Railroad Museum and was photographed in June 2009. Dale Martin photograph courtesy of Rapido Trains. Bob Chaparro Moderator |
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Volunteer Orange Pickers
Volunteer Orange Pickers A post by David Eck. He comments: The Covina Host Lions Pick Oranges During World War II - 1944. While most of the men working in food production in the United State were exempt from the draft, many people in the citrus industry volunteered for the military anyway. This left growers with a shortage of employees. Like most Lions Club chapters, volunteering in communities is part of their mission. Here we see members of the Covina Host Lions after a day of picking oranges. They're working in the grove of a member of the Covina Orange Growers Association. Note the initials "C.O.G." on the field boxes. This was a day of volunteer work for these men. Some of the men in the photo look to be past draft age. Regardless, Covina Orange Growers needed extra help to get their crop picked and the Lions came through. Bob Chaparro Moderator |
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Model: American Fruit Growers Packing House - San Juan Capistrano
Model: American Fruit Growers Packing House - San Juan Capistrano A night scene from Alain Kap¡¯s Modeling the ATSF 4th District LA Division blog. Also pictured is the Santa Fe San Juan Capistrano Depot. A parking garage now occupies the site of the old packing house. He lives in Saarburg, Germany. Bob Chaparro Moderator |
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Old National Orange Show Building
Old National Orange Show Building A post from the Facebook Photo Collection - Los Angeles Public Library group. Description: Exterior view of a building housing the National Orange Show in San Bernardino on May 1939. Photo by Burton O. Burt - Works Progress Administration Collection. My Notes: In July 1949, the building was completely destroyed by fire. By March of 1950, a new and larger exhibition building was ready for use. A history from the National Orange Show website: Along with the growing industry, a series of citrus fairs were held in the 1880s and 1890s. The world¡¯s first Citrus Fair was staged in Riverside in February of 1879. It was at this fair that the Washington Navel was first exhibited and its superior qualities recognized. The fair was such a success that a second fair followed in February 1880, and a third in March of 1881. The citizens of Riverside were so delighted with the success of the fair that they turned it into an annual event and actually erected a pavilion for the fair of 1882. Annual citrus fairs were held in Riverside, except for one or two that were held in Colton, until 1891. At the same time, similar fairs were being held in Los Angeles and San Bernardino County. In 1889, the very first ¡°Orange Show¡± was staged in San Bernardino. This premier show was scheduled to run a week, but the promoters were doubtful as to whether or not the show would last that long. Each day, a brief message appeared in the Courier (the forerunner of San Bernardino¡¯s newspaper, The Sun) urging committee members to obtain exhibitors. When the show opened, fifteen county communities were represented in the citrus exhibits. Other county products also on display included raisins, walnuts, lemons, limes, grapes, apples, and Cucamonga wines and brandies. The show opened with the City of San Bernardino band playing from a Van Dorin Building balcony on Third Street. The event cost $744.25 to produce, with $1,180.25 in revenue. Since financial success was apparent and the show was so well received by the community, the event was extended to an eleven-day run. The ¡°Orange Show¡± went ¡°National¡± in 1911 with tents pitched at Fourth and ¡°D¡± Streets in San Bernardino. By that time, the impact of the citrus industry on San Bernardino economics had escalated. For example, the 7,511 orange trees in 1872 had grown to 1,347,911 by 1900; the 15,000 boxes of oranges shipped in 1881 stood at 1,562,108 boxes by 1902-03; and the cash value of the orange crop had grown from $2,450 in 1860 to $1,634,783 in 1900. This introduction provided the setting and circumstances for the genesis of the National Orange Show, which has taken place every year since its inception in 1911, with the exception of four years during World War II. Bob Chaparro Moderator |
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Carpinteria Display At The 1917 National Orange Show
Carpinteria Display At The 1917 National Orange Show Description: The principal citrus fruit grown in Carpinteria was lemons and it looks like this display is mostly made-up of lemons. Bruce Morden commented: CD Hubbard was famous for his fruit displays.? This is clearly one of his.? His CD Hubbard Fruit Company later became Carpinteria Lemon Association.? His house is still extant and is about 5 blocks from me.? I often walk by it on longer walks.? For a while he toyed with a residential subdivision called Hubbard Woods and even built what appears to be a log cabin depot along the Southern Pacific tracks near his home.? I will try to find a photo of the "depot" Here is a link to the local paper's article on CD Hubbard by one of my neighbors, Jim Campos.
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SFRD Reefers At San Bernardino Scale House
SFRD Reefers At San Bernardino Scale House A post by Dave Snell on the Facebook Santa Fe Railway Historical & Modeling Society group. Description: Scale House in the San Bernardino ¡°A¡± Yard. Sign on front states ¡°Never Allow Engine on Scale¡±. An Rr-46 reefer #9975 (rebuilt in 1946) is on the right side of the photo. The domes of the depot are in the left edge of the photo. Looks like it must be close to Mt. Vernon overpass. Photographer unknown, Western Archives collection. Bob Chaparro Moderator |
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Amtrak At The Olive Packing House
Amtrak At The Olive Packing House A post by Vic Yoder on the Facebook Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railway group. Description: Photo by Roy Wojahn of a detouring San Diegan. He comments: There was work or something going on from Fullerton to Orange. I took a photo of an Amtrak from a hill above the packing house. Bob Chaparro Moderator |
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Santa Fe Switcher At The Olive Packing House
Santa Fe Switcher At The Olive Packing House A post by Judy Webb on the Facebook Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railway group. Bill Webb photo. Description: The 0300 Fullerton Road Switcher at Olive posing next to the Sunkist Packing House. Sunkist is gone as is almost all of the industry that was rail served on the Olive Sub. 1995. Bob Chaparro Moderator ? |
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Val Vita Food Products Company, Fullerton
Val Vita Food Products Company, Fullerton A post from the Facebook Photo Collection - Los Angeles Public Library group. Description: View of the Val Vita Food Products plant located in Fullerton. Norton Winfred Simon was a billionaire industrialist and philanthropist who, in 1927, invested $7,000 in a citrus juice plant which was insolvent and renamed it Val Vita Food Products Company. He soon added other fruit and vegetables to the product lines and purchased canning equipment. By 1941, Val Vita Food Products Company (later Hunt Wesson, and today part of ConAgra Foods, Inc.) had become the largest food processing company in the United States. June 1939. Photo by Burton O. Burt - Works Progress Administration Collection. My Notes: Val Vita Food Products began producing citrus juice in 1932.? Bob Chaparro Moderator |
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Re: Santa Fe 2723 With A Three SFRD Reefers
I would be willing to bet this is at the East end of Famoso.? I believe I see the Poso Creek bridge in the background and the signals look right to me, the siding had a doublehead dwarf to either line a train out to the main or down the siding extension.
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On Sun, Mar 16, 2025 at 08:58 PM, cliffprather wrote:
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