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S Brand Lemon Crate Label A post by David Eck. He comments: Grown & Packed by Rancho Sespe in Sespe, Ventura County, California. Printed by Schmidt Lithograph, Los Angeles. Circa 1910s. Sespe was a small community in Ventura County near the Santa Clara River. By the 1890s, it had a post office, school and railroad station. Local backers hoped it would become the area's primary town. This didn't happen. The nearby city of Fillmore grew and eventually overshadowed little Sespe and the town declined. Little of the town of Sespe remains. Bob Chaparro Moderator

PFE Icing Platform – Yuma, Arizona A photo from a 1927 Yuma Chamber of Commerce publication. Thanks to Don Gray for the tip. Bob Chaparro Moderator

SP Reefer Block - Arizona A photo from a column by The Rogue Columnist. Description: Heavy-duty Southern Pacific steam power is in charge of this train of reefers carrying Salt River produce. Bob Chaparro Moderator

Tustin Orange Packing House Employees A post by David Eck. Description: Tustin Orange Packing House Employees, circa 1910 The whole crew has turned out for this photograph, including four horses who help haul crates from the groves to the packing house. On the far left, behind the automobile, are two gentlemen. I bet the car belongs to the man on the left. I also imagine he is the owner of the packing house. This packing house was located near the Southern Pacific Railroad depot on Newport Avenue between Laguna Road and Main Street in Tustin. Photo from the Orange County Public Library. Bob Chaparro Moderator

SFRD 8987 (Rr-43) Description: Reefer serving as a storage shed next to a corral on a Kern County, California, ranch in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. My Notes: Class Rr-43 ice bunker reefer from Series 8600-9132. 534 cars. Other Rr-43 series were 9133-9144. 9135-9367 and 9368-9369. All four series (770 car total) rebuilt in 1947 from Classes Rr-X through Rr4. Fishbelly underframes were carried over from the original USRA-style design. When rebuilt the car kept its reverse-opening hatch covers. Notice this car at some point after the rebuilding received conventional-opening hatch covers, that is, the hatch covers opened towards the center of the car rather than over the ends. This car also received a sliding plug door at some point after the rebuilding. SFRD 9133, 9144 9368 and 9369 were the only cars that received sliding plug doors in the 1947 rebuilding program. The late Richard Hendrickson stated the Santa Fe equipped all new and rebuilt SFRD cars with sliding plug doors beginning with the Rr-48 class in 1950 and also retrofitted to many earlier Santa Fe cars in the 1950s. Between 1959 and 1961 the Rr-43 fleet dropped from 736 cars to 467. There were 213 cars in 1968, 112 in 1971 and 14 in 1973. 1973 was the year that the ICC permitted discontinuance of bunker icing for refrigerator cars. The railroads no longer were required to re-ice reefers in transit on their lines. This meant that large reefer fleet operators such as PFE and Santa Fe no longer could rely on other railroads to re-ice interchanged reefers. Bob Chaparro Moderator

Model: PFE 71117 (R-40-4) A post by Thomas Highberger on the Facebook Prototype Accurate Model Freight Cars group. He comments: Old Silver Streak PFE Reefer (HO) I built awhile back! Bob Chaparro Moderator

Haight Fruit Company - Redlands A post from the Facebook All About Redlands group. Bob Chaparro Moderator ++++ History of Haight Fruit Company The Mitten Building 345 North Fifth Street. Lon G. Haight, one of the sons of Ira C. Haight and president/manager of the Haight Fruit Company, had this fine brick building erected on Fifth Street in Redlands in 1890. Both Lon and his father arrived in Redlands in 1882 and immediately became involved in fruit packing but President Harrison appointed Ira postmaster in 1899, causing him to be less involved in the fruit industry. As this was the first packinghouse constructed in Redlands, it was used by the Redlands Orange Growers’ Association, which was one of the first collective marketing operations in Southern California. The brands of oranges the company introduced were the Poppy, Chief and Moon according to Illustrated Redlands (1897). Described as one of the “most monumental (buildings) in Redlands”, this 9” thick-walled two-story red brick rectangular building standing alone next to the railroad tracks measures 72 feet by 120 feet. The roof is gabled with a steep parapet on both ends of the building. It is decorated with piers, which begin as part of the concrete foundation and then become brick pilasters, which extend almost to the top of the front and back facades. Remarkably, although not visible from the exterior, these concrete piers provide the foundation for the huge solid redwood timbers, which are holding the roof up. Thus, the brick exterior walls are not supporting the roof of corrugated metal. In 1929 the building became the Jones Cider & Vinegar Company factory and then passed to Frank S. and Mary Mitten in 1938. Their son, Frank J. Mitten, used the building to manufacture, store and ship unique ceramic display letters, which were primarily used in department stores and other business endeavors across the nation to identify and promote their wares. He expanded the building toward the south in 1944 with a 5400 square foot addition called the “Summerbell Room” for the beautiful wooden bow trussed roof; now Thatcher Engineering. This is where Frank J. Mitten had an apartment once he relocated his business to New York but retained the Redlands building for the manufacturing of his letters. He also added a machine shop on the back, which is now The Boiler Room bar. The building remained in Mitten’s hands until 1985 but then fell into disrepair. In 1987 the City officially designated the structure an “historical resource.” Six partners, designated as Poppy Chief and Moon Group but better known as Bob Clark, Mark Gordon, Eric Munson, John Goddard, Craig Chamberlain and Leon Armantrout, bought the building in 1998 from Scott Plastics of Florida, who acquired it as part of their purchase of Frank J. Mitten’s letter business. It had sat abandoned for several years and was threatened by demolition plans and a fire started by transients. The Redlands Conservancy, dedicated to the preservation of historic buildings and other features of the community, gathered a group of volunteers to clean out and board up the building. Then they found the group of investors to purchase the building. Today the building’s effective adaptive re-use is apparent. The building has been brought up to current codes including fire sprinklers, electrical, lighting, heating and cooling systems, plumbing and seismic retrofit. A new parking lot has been created on the southerly portion of the property and the site has been landscaped. The Redlands Area Historical Society thanks Poppy Chief and Moon Group for their stewardship in maintaining this remarkable building for future generations of Redlanders to enjoy. Additionally, we commend the Redlands Conservancy’s vision to “demonstrate the positive economics of keeping our historic and architecturally significant buildings” for the future. Researched and written by Judith Hunt REDLANDS AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY, INC. From Jim Lancaster’s packing house website: The Haight Fruit Company was the first packing house in Redlands. The packing house was built in 1

Model: PFE 2878 (R-30-2) A post by Michael Stamey on the Facebook Prototype Accurate Model Refrigerator/Insulated Cars group. He comments: PFE class R-30-2 ice bunker reefer. Circa early 1920s. Built from a Westerfield kit. My Notes: The prototype was in Series 1701-4600. There were 2,900 R-30-2 reefers built by AC&F in 1907. These cars had had wood frame superstructures, wood sheathing and steel underframes. A discussion with several photos begins on Page 69 of the PFE book. Bob Chaparro Moderator

Train Of New Santa Fe Reefers A photo from Classic Trains magazine. Description: 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

Wrapping & Packing Oranges In Redlands A photo from the Facebook All About Redlands group. Possibly the Redlands Mutual Orange Company. Bob Chaparro Moderator

KCFE Refrigerator Car 20185 (Armour) A post by Raymond Breyer on the Facebook Pre-Depression Era Railroad Modelers group. Description: KCFE 20185, ACF Chicago, 9/24/1900. The late Bill Welch commented: This is one of Ogden Armour's companies before he consolidated his various reefer entities into the Armour owned Fruit Growers Express that would then become the railroad owned Fruit Growers Express Company in May 1920. My Notes: Before the consent agreement broke the functional monopoly of the meat packers over produce transportation, cars such as this carried produce rather than meat. After the agreement PFE was created and Santa Fe was able to expand its produce hauling business. Bob Chaparro Moderator

High Noon Reefer Block A post by Randy Keller on the Facebook Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway group. A crappy high noon image, but cool to see all those reefers on the head end! ATSF 2872, 3360, 3403, 3416, 3421, 3430 departing Barstow eastbound on 6/25/82. Bob Chaparro Moderator

Article: New Foothill Groves Packing House (1915) A post by David Eck. He comments: Top: News article in the Santa Ana Register on November 5, 1915. Foothill Groves has begun packing lemons in their new packing house. Bottom: A label that would be used by Foothill Groves on their lemon crates around this time. This is: Boy Brand Lemon Crate Label. From Foothill Groves in Yorba Linda, Orange County, California. Printed by Western Lithograph Company, Los Angeles in 1916. Bob Chaparro Moderator

Photo: SFRD 3436 (Rr-52) Photo courtesy of Don DeLay. A Peter Arnold photo taken in May 1974, one year after the ICC allow discontinuance of in-transit icing of reefers. SFRD 3436 is a class Rr-52 ice bunker reefer, one of 220 built new by the Santa Fe Wichita Shops in 1952-53, series 3280-3499. Notice the "conventional" hatch covers which open inboard of the car roof. These cars differed in only a few details from the Class Rr-47 cars and, according to the Santa Fe reefer book, were virtually identical to the ARA rebuilds of the Rr-49, -50 and -51 classes. By 1968 there were 195 cars in this class on the roster. That dropped to 137 in 1971 and just 28 in 1974. The remaining Rr-52 cars were retired in that same year and were among the last ice bunker refrigerator cars in revenue service on the Santa Fe. There are several photo examples of Rr-52 reefers in the book, Santa Fe Refrigerator Cars: Ice Bunker Cars 1884-1979. Bob Chaparro Moderator

Ventura Maid Crate Label A post by David Eck. He comments: Ventura Maid Brand Lemon Crate Label. Packed by Ventura Packing Company in Montalvo, Ventura County, California. Distributed by American Fruit Growers Incorporated in Los Angeles. Printed by Western Lithograph Company, Los Angeles, Circa 1951. Bob Chaparro Moderator

Photo: Picking Oranges In Fillmore An undated photo from the Museum of Ventura County. Bob Chaparro Moderator