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What Became Of SFRD Mechanical Reefer 2219 (Rr-61)? A post by Dwight Wedel on the Facebook Santa Fe Railway Historical & Modeling Society group. Photo taken at the Newton, Kansas, Sand Creek Yard, mid-1980s. My Notes: One of 25 SFRD cars in Series 2214-2238. Built in 1958. SFRD 2219 became SFRP Mechanical Reefer 2219 in 1963 SFRP 2219 became ATSF 205158, a M-O-W tool car, in 1979. There are two good Keith Jordan photos of this same car in M-O-W service on Page 77 of the book, Mechanical Refrigerator Cars & Insulated Refrigerator Cars Of The Santa Fe Railway 1949-1988, by John B. Moore, Jr., for the Santa Fe Railway Historical & Modeling Society. With this history you can model the Rapido HO scale car for three different time periods. Bob Chaparro Moderator

Upland Lemon Packing House Storage (1937) Description: Interior of a lemon warehouse in Upland, showing the lemons fresh from the grove on April 8, 1937, ready for sorting and packing. Bob Chaparro Moderator

E. A. Hooker Packing House - Hueneme Wharf A post by Bruce Little He comments: Before trains and highways connected the region, Ventura County's agricultural success depended on the Hueneme Wharf, built in 1871 by Thomas Bard. The E.A. Hooker packing house was a state-of-the-art citrus packing house strategically located directly on the Hueneme Wharf. Operated by the Oxnard Citrus Association (OCA) and named after its long-time leader, its primary function was to efficiently process and load Ventura County citrus onto ships for export. Citrus fruit (primarily lemons and oranges from the Oxnard Plain) could be received from growers, processed (washed, graded, sized, packed), and then loaded directly onto ships docked at the wharf via conveyor systems. Edward A. Hooker was a highly influential figure in Ventura County's citrus industry and served for many years (decades, in fact) as the manager and later president of the Oxnard Citrus Association. The OCA was one of the major citrus packing cooperatives in the region, affiliated with the larger Sunkist Growers cooperative. It represented numerous citrus growers in the Oxnard area Bob Chaparro Moderator

Heaters On An Icing Platform A post by Doug Harding on the Groups.io Real Steam Era Freight Car Discussion group. Bob Chaparro Moderator

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

New SFRD Reefers Photo from Classic Trains magazine. A Santa Fe 4-8-4 powers a long string of new SFRD reefers near Winslow, Ariz., in the mid-1940s. Santa Fe Railway photo. Bob Chaparro Moderator

Aerial Photo: La Habra Citrus Association Packing House A post by David Eck. Description: La Habra Citrus Association Packing House - Circa 1930s The packing house had a double set of railroad tracks by their loading dock. My Notes: In 1908 the Pacific Electric Railroad was brought to La Habra to meet demands for hauling the citrus fruit as well as the walnuts growing in the southern part of the valley. The railroad hauled equipment to the newly developed oil lands in this area. In 1913-14 the large Sunkist packing houses were built. At one time, La Habra Citrus Association controlled more citrus acreage that any other in the state. In 1916, the Sunkist Citrus association erected housing in the southwestern part of La Habra for the newly-arriving Mexican agricultural workers Bob Chaparro Moderator

Empty PFE Reefers A photo from Classic Trains magazine. Description: Empty refrigerator cars race across the Union Pacific in Nebraska in the early 1950s. My Notes: If empty, probably headed west for conditioning and reloading. Bob Chaparro Moderator

Interior Lemon Packing House Santa Paula Undated photos from the Los Angeles Public Library. Description: Workers on a conveyor belt in a lemon packing house in Santa Paula. My Notes; This appears to be the Limoneira packing house. Bob Chaparro Moderator

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

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

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

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

Presentation This Saturday At the California Citrus State Historical Park. Bob Chaparro

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

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. https://www.coastalview.com/news/c-d-hubbard-and-his-lemon-legacy/article_68a34ad4-fd0a-11ee-82e2-e34d944d3b02.html Bob Chaparro Moderator

Santa Fe 2723 With A Three SFRD Reefers A post by Victor B. D'Agostino Description: Southern California. Mid-1960s. My Notes: This certainly would make an acceptable train on a smaller layout. Bob Chaparro Moderator

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