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Local Wholesale Dealer's Ad with Bear Brand - 1919 A post by David Eck. Description: The ad on the left is for J.I. Lamb Company in La Crosse, Wisconsin and appeared in the La Crosse Tribune Newspaper on June 6, 1919. The company specifically promoted Bear Brand Sunkist Oranges. The orange crate label is seen on the right. Note the outline bear image in the ad which matches the label. The ad also mentions Hewe's Park Brand and Castlemore Brand Lemons. It wasn't unusual for specific brands to be mentioned in local advertising. The Lamb Company sold citrus as a wholesale dealer, so they encouraged the public to ask their local retail dealer for these specific brands. The fruit sellers and grocery stores would then buy these brands from Lamb to sell to the public. Technically, one Sunkist brand should have the same quality fruit as another Sunkist brand, but I suppose it created an added sense of quality in the minds of the public to insist on a specific brand like Bear Brand. After all, the ad states: Look for This Label - Bear Brand - It stands for quality fruit. The best that California offers. Bob Chaparro Moderator

Santa Fe FT #195 With Reefer Block A post by Don N Jane Hall on the Facebook Elmer K Hall's Rail Photographs group. Description: Early Elmer shot: Santa Fe FTs with #195 flying what appear to be white flags on the front of a block of Santa Fe reefers. Photo Elmer K Hall, my collection Bob Chaparro Moderator

SP GS 4456 With Reefer Block A post by Taylor Rush on the Facebook From the Album group. Description: Southern Pacific GS-4 class "Northern/General Service/Golden State" number 4456. The streamlined 4-8-4 was built by the Lima Locomotive Works, construction number 7854, in March of 1942. Missing her side skirts and longer wearing her original "Daylight" colors, number 4456 was photographed moving a train of reefers through Martinez, California in October of 1956. Original photo taken by R. Buhr, or something like that. Bob Chaparro Moderator

Red Ball Store Sign - Circa 1920s A post by David Eck He comments: This sign would be hung by string (see photo, top) in retail markets and fruit dealers. Marketing materials for Red Ball grade fruit are rare. The California Fruit Growers Exchange (CFGE) focused nearly all its marketing efforts on selling their Sunkist grade citrus. Red Ball was the designation for the second best fruit from CFGE. Red Ball oranges would still be sweet and juicy and had the advantage of being less expensive than Sunkist grade oranges. This afforded consumers an option. Bob Chaparro Moderator

Southern Pacific PFE Advertisement A post by Rexford Leong Jr. on the Facebook Southern Pacific Railroad group. Undated but 1966 or later. Bob Chaparro Moderator

Question: Expanded Metal Panels On SFRD Reefer Roofs On the Groups.io Real Steam Era Freight Car Discussion group David Soderblom asked: I don’t personally recall seeing that some SFRD cars had expanded metal panels across the cars, on the car center side of the hatches. Did anyone else do this, and which SFRD classes? Bob Chaparro Moderator

Irvine Valencia Packing House A post by David Eck. Description: Circa 1940 This photo is by Edward W. Cochems. Image is from the University of California Irvine Library. Bob Chaparro Moderator

Model: Cab Forward With PFE Reefer Block A post by Brian Moore on the Facebook Southern Pacific Prototype Modelers group. Description: Westward X4185. SP Class AC-8 4185 at the west end of Callender, Calif. with an empty reefer block. Wednesday 28 April 1954. My Notes: Brian lives in Plymouth, England. Bob Chaparro Moderator

Check Out The Icing Platform A post by Doug Harding on Facebook. He comments: Today I ran on a very nice Union Pacific layout modeling the Council Bluffs and eastern Nebraska. HO scale, no scenery, but superb track and operations. I handled the transfers between the UP and all the railroads that came into Council Bluffs from the east. My Notes: Two icing machines! Doug took this at ProRail last week. Layout owned by Mark Amfahr of Woodland, MN. Bob Chaparro Moderator

Lemon Cull Gondola Trio Here are my three lemon cull gondolas parked in front of a scratch-built shallow relieve model of the Corona Citrus Association Packing House. The packing house model is 140 feet long, the same length as the prototype. Bob Chaparro Moderator

Packing Citrus In The Grove - I. L. Lyon & Sons A post by Robert Wilkiewicz on the Facebook Urban Archaeology SoCal Pomona Valley Ontario IE History group. Description: Antique postcard from Redlands California C. N. Jackson Photographer My Notes: This appears to reflect an earlier time when the crop was packed in the grove. Notice these are packing crates and not field boxes. This evolved to packing on the open platforms of local railroad depots to packing at purpose-built packing houses. Bob Chaparro Moderator

Ghost Sunkist Sign Merle Dech on the Facebook Ghost Signs group. Location: Toledo, Ohio. Souk Restaurant at 139 South Huron Street. Bob Chaparro Moderator

BAR 2903 ex-BAR 10113 (Boxcar) Pacific Fruit Express used Bangor & Aroostook reefers under an arrangement with that railroad. This photo is from a post by Larry Curtis on the Facebook Bangor & Aroostook Railroad group. Larry identifies this as a refrigerator car. BAR 2903 is not a refrigerator car. Visually, the latitudinal running boards on the roof confirm this. But more importantly, the January 1955 Official Railway Equipment Register identifies this car as a boxcar, specifically an AAR Class IXH or insulated boxcar with a heater. There have been reports of two older wood sheathed BAR refrigerator cars having been painted in the red-white-blue paint scheme as an experiment but this car is not one of those. And there were never any BAR steel sheathed reefers painted in the red-white-blue paint scheme. Every photo identified as such actually is a photo of an insulated boxcar. Many model manufacturers get this wrong. Bob Chaparro Moderator

UP 3610 With Reefer Block A post by Taylor Rush on the Facebook From the Album group. Description: Flying white extra flags and trailing a long line of iced and loaded refrigerator cars as she enters the yards at Cheyenne, Wyoming is Union Pacific MC-2 class "Mallet Consolidation" number 3610. The big coal-burning 2-8-8-0 "Mallet" articulated was built by the Schenectady plant of the American Locomotive Company, construction number 58272, in May of 1918. Nicknamed "Bull Mooses" by their crews, eventually the Union Pacific would roster seventy of these slow but powerful locomotives. They were succesful enough that between 1937 and 1943 all were simpled and upgraded. Number 3610 would emerge from the shops as a SA-C-2 class and carrying the new number 3510. Bob Chaparro Moderator

California Citrus State Historic Park - Riverside Looking to get out into nature? Now you’ll have even more time to explore! California Citrus State Historic Park is now open from 8 AM to 7 PM on weekends and 8 AM to 5 PM on weekdays. Take a walk through our scenic trails, enjoy the fresh air with your furry friends, or find the perfect spot for a sunny photo — there’s no better time to soak in the beauty of the citrus groves! https://www.facebook.com/citrusstatehistoricpark My Notes: The Visitors Center has many citrus industry displays. Bob Chaparro Moderator

Sunkist Billboard (1933) A photo from the Milwaukee Public Library. Description: This photograph shows a two-story clapboard building on the corner of N. 4th and W. Vliet. The building has a false front, and advertising for cigarettes on the side of the building. A billboard for Sunkist oranges is to the right of the building. Photographer: Henry H. Hunter Bob Chaparro Moderator

Echo Brand Crate Label A post by Bruce Little. He comments: ECHO brand orange crate label. #1 of at least 3 versions. Grown and packed by the Pasadena Orange Growers Association, Pasadena. Printed by Los Angeles Litho. Company, Los Angeles; early 1900s. Bob Chaparro Moderator

Model: SP Beet Gondola With Cull Lemon Load Awhile back someone told me they had seen an SP beet gondola with a load of cull oranges parked at the old Sunkist juice plant (now gone) in Ontario, Ca. I don’t know about oranges, but I do know that SP hauled cull lemons from Arizona to an Anaheim juice plant and (via the Santa Fe) the Exchange Lemon Products plant in Corona. Exchange Products also received cull lemons by boxcar. An article on prototype gondolas for transporting lemons was posted on this group in 2018: https://tinyurl.com/3m7yr5p2 The article kindled my interest in building an HO scale gondola with a cull lemon load. I reported on this project five years ago: https://tinyurl.com/bddpf3dx I followed up that project with a second gondola from Red Caboose/Intermountain. For this third project I started out with a R-T-R Intermountain SP beet gondola with the board sides used prior to the use of plywood sides. Is this load prototypical? Maybe not but I do have an authorized modeler’s license issued by…me. For lemons I used some of my stock of JTT Scenery Products #92124 miniature fruit, which included a packet of lemons. JTT now is owned by Model Rectifier Corporation (MRC), who marketed this product as JTT #0592124. Be advised that these probably are the last lemons available in HO scale, but they are listed as out-of-stock by MRC. Woodland Scenics did not offer scale lemons. Alpine Division Scale Models did but they no longer are in business. For lemons your best source is E-Bay for the Alpine, the old JTT or MRC products. I scratch-built a base for the upper interior section of the gondola and installed it. I then attached the upper section (the board extension section) to the main body of the gondola. I coated the base with Pacer Technology's Formula 560 Canopy Glue and sprinkled on some lemons. Adhesion was good. When dry I gave the first layer another coat of diluted (20% water) Canopy Glue and added more lemons. I added a third coat just for insurance. This produced a good, built-up layer of lemons with no bare spots showing through to the base. When this was dry, I shook off the excess lemons. Done. The photo below is the finished model temporarily parked on a siding next to a scratch-built shallow relief model of a packing house. This packing house would not have processed cull lemons, so this car is waiting to be switched to the nearby Exchange Lemon Products Plant, which on my railroad had yet to be modeled. Bob Chaparro Moderator