Jesse,

Contact me offline. I am modeling the Anaheim Depot are and I have a lot of pictures and material that we can share.

Per Harwe
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Jesse, since you indicate the desire to model Anaheim I assume you are located in the Orange County area. If so, the archives located in the basement of the Old Orange County Courthouse in Santa Ana is another source of Sanborn maps, along with many photos. I found the archivists there very helpful and knowledgeable and they are willing to make photocopies.

But before attempting use of Sanborn maps you probably need to pin down not only your modeling era (Sanborn maps are dated) but also a more specific location than just “Anaheim” which is a big area. A good free online source for anyone modeling a specific era and locale is historicaerials.com. A particular area such as Anaheim can be viewed via old aerial photos switching from year to year. The road overlay option is very helpful in pinpointing locations. It is possible to “follow the tracks” into areas that might be candidates for modeling. Higher res images can be purchased if desired once a specific time & place are determined. That information can also used to find the proper Sanborn with more detailed information.

Anyone modeling a specific area should always seek out the local history association and the city’s library for a local history room. Anaheim has both and they both have an online presence, but initially consider an in-person visit as the curators can serve as your guide.

You already mentioned citrus packing houses. Anyone modeling Southern California should bookmark on their computers Historic Packing Houses of Southern California, Dr Jim Lancaster’s definitive website on the subject. Merely select the county and then city and you will have a wealth of valuable information.

In the case of Anaheim plan to pop over to the Anaheim Packing District, now a food court, to get a sense of the architecture.

Bruce Hendrick
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Jesse -

A good source for finding out other businesses are Sanborn Insurance maps.? These were created for insurance companies and show most commercial buildings in a town.? The one down side is finding them.? Due to copywrite laws,?you generally can only download for free from the various on line sources (Library of Congress being one) maps only up until the 1920s.? However, a number of university libraries have them that you may be able to get copies of more recent ones?from.? You will need to do some digging on line to find them.

If you want to spend some money on reference books, the two you will want are:

1. Pacific Fruit Express

By Anthony W Thompson, Robert J. Church, Bruce H. Jones

Signature Press

This is a thorough and complete history of the world's largest refrigerator car operator, the Pacific Fruit Express Company. The 432-page book has 663 photos (some in color), scale car drawings, shop track layouts, system map, paint scheme drawings, and accurate color drift panels. It includes an appendix, a complete index, and a comprehensive bibliography.

2. Santa Fe Refrigerator Cars Ice Bunker Cars 1884-1979

(Volume 2, Rolling Stock Reference Series)

By C. Keith Jordan, Richard H. Hendrickson, John B. Moore and A. Dean Hale and the Santa Fe Modeler Organization (1994)

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Jesse, you will shortly be getting a ton of resources on Santa Fe and PFE from the learned members of this group. But Job 1 for you (since you are seeking accuracy) is to decide on a timeframe for your Railroad. PFE or Santa Fe reefers in the 1920s are very different than those in the 1970s.?

hello my name is jesse and I am working on re designing my layout to represent Anaheim and the city of orange in Southern California so while doing research on the area i found out that both Pacific fruit express and Santa Fe both served the areas when it came to refrigerator cars. ?So my layout is small like I think. 10x10. So Other than having packing houses what other buildings do I need to have on the layout? ? When it comes to Santa Fe is there something out that discribes types of Santa Fe cars and how to model them? ?And when it comes to the Santa Fe and the PFE with operations for model railroading is there documents says how I should run them?

National Perishable Protective Tariff #11 1940: PDF Download

Courtesy of Bill Welch, this is a link to PDF for this document:

This loads very slowly so be patient.

This basically is a 400-plus page document stating the rules and regulations governing the handling of perishable freight, including charges for various services.

Bob Chaparro

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It's gone as of 10:33 CST.

Bill Jolitz

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Still available at feebay. Just put in “Winfield”.

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Very nice! Thanks for sharing. Visitors can view the same scene, same era, canal & all, in HO at the Corona Model Railroad Society on any Saturday from 10-2. .?

Art Print: Reefers At Riverside

Courtesy of Dave Churry, this is an art print of the Riverside Depot with reefers. The artwork is by John Winfield and is no longer is available.

Bob Chaparro

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Santa Fe Reefer Train With Unusual Power

Here is the link:

Caption: "Back in the 1970s, one could see about anything on Santa Fe rails between San Bernardino and Barstow, California. On March 20, 1971, a Santa Fe eastbound is climbing Cajon Pass east of Cajon siding. Leading the train is Rio Grande SD45 5327 and a pair of UP SD45s, 3642 and 3649, which are assigned to the Sunnyside, Utah, to Fontana, California, coal train. When the Sunnyside train was being unloaded, Santa Fe would use the motors to haul cars from San Bernardino to Barstow. In the consist this day was a Santa Fe A-B set of F-units, which had been overhauled at the San Bernardino Shops and were being deadheaded east."

Bob Chaparro

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