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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

PFE Switcher 1048 Photo courtesy of Craig Walker. Pacific Fruit Express NW2 No. 1048 began life as Union Pacific 1048. It is seen here at the PFE shops in Tucson, Arizona, on September 12, 1981. Russell Eslick photograph. Bob Chaparro Moderator

PFE Reefers At Villa Park Orchards Packing House A post by Don Golde on Flickr. Description: At least seven PFE reefers on the SP on the old Tustin Branch spotted at the Villa Park Orchards orange packing facility at Villa Park, CA sometime in mid-May 1975. Bob Chaparro Moderator

Train On A Crate Label A post by David Eck. He comments: Economy Brand Lemon Crate Label. Red Ball grade fruit. Grown on the McNally Ranch in La Mirada, Los Angeles County, California. Printed by Western Lithograph in July 1933. Why is this scantily clad woman on the label? I guess someone had to pull the curtain back so we could see the buildings and orchards of McNally Ranch. Bob Chaparro Moderator

Sunkist Grower Sign A post from the Facebook History of Corona group. Description & Comments: Sunkist - Orange Heights Association Haven’t been able to find the exact location of this grove in Corona. That said, E.H. Wallace and his wife lived at 824 Belle St. (Where the hospital is now), were members of the Christian church and in 1946 Eldridge ‘E.H’ Wallace passed away. It was fairly common for citizens of Corona to own small citrus groves and then pool with other grove owners of the Orange Heights Association to distribute their oranges and lemons. Bob Chaparro Moderator

Fontana Citrus Lands - 1915 A post by David Eck. Description: Newspaper ad for Fontana Citrus Lands - 1915 This ad appeared in the Rialto Record on February 26, 1915. The company is offering land suitable for citrus growing. This land includes water right which are absolutely critical to raising citrus in hot, dry Southern California. The ad makes it sound pretty much perfect. Bob Chaparro Moderator

Santa Fe Texas Locos With Reefer Block A post by Taylor Rush on the Facebook From the Album group. Description: Shaking the ground as they storm towards the photographer at thirty miles per hour with eighty-seven cars in tow are a pair of Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe 5011 class "Texas" locomotives, number 5015 and 5025. The gigantic oil-burning 2-10-4 machines were built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1944 and carried construction numbers 70821 and 70831. Designed for dual-service, these superpower behemoths rolled on 74" drivers that transferred 108,961 pounds of tractive effort to the rails. They were fitted with roller bearings on all axles, sporting a cast-steel bed with integrated cylinders, a Worthington 6-SA feedwater heater, Walschaerts valve gear with lightweight rods, and nearly 6,000 cylinder horsepower. The extra freight was captured near Abo, New Mexico on October 5, 1947. Four of the class have been preserved. Number 5011 at the Museum of Transportation in Kirkwood, Missouri, number 5017 at the National Railroad Museum in Green Bay, Wisconsin, number 5021 at the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento, California, and number 5030 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Original photo taken by R. H. Kindig. Bob Chaparro Moderator

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