Introduction

1. The following information is derived from the  Citrus Industry Modeling Group message board. It is by no means complete, The information is just a starting point fro those interested in modeling the citrus industry and icing it in with the Southern Pacific Railroad and the Pacific Fruit Express. for more information go to:
   

2.                                                                             http://groups.yahoo.com/group/citrusmodeling/  
   

General Information

1. Most packinghouses were built in the 1920’s and 30’s and they were upgraded with more modern packing equipment in the 1950’s and 60’s. About 20% of the packinghouses contained ice making or cold storage facilities for storing fruit up to several weeks depending on market conditions. The packinghouses was built with skylight roofs and positioned to catch the sun for better visibility by the packers. Once the fruit was packed it was then stored to build up loads for several cars. Each 40’ car contained 462 crates weighing 50 pounds each.
   

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3. Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties were and to some extent still are big lemon growing areas. They used to have lots of packing houses, but like lots of them they have closed, burned or converted to other uses. 
   

1. Approximately 20% of all packinghouses had cold storage and icing facilities.
   

References

New Packing House Photos

1. Four Ways West recently released a new book called CALIFORNIA RAILS 1950'S: A Color Pictorial. It contains photos by Dallas Gilbertson. Joe Shine provided me with the "out-takes" from the book, i.e., seven color images of packing houses and an ice house in Ojai and Santa Paula, CA. The photos were taken by Gilbertson in June 1956!
   

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3. There are a lot of images of packing houses, crate labels and citrus groves but little in the way of related railroad subjects, unfortunately.                                                     http://www.flickr.com/groups/californiacitrus/pool/
   

4. Bob Chaparro
   

Packing House Web Page

1. I gave a presentations on "Packing Houses along the Eastside Lines" at the SFRH&MS and SPH&TS conventions. On my web site are packing houses of the San Joaquin Valley.
   

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3. New page cover the Eastside Lines  of the SP and ATSF branches between Bakersfield and Fresno and east of Highway 99, plus the Visalia Electric RR.  The Eastside Lines coverage is divided into seven parts. Part 3 is a preview of the type of material that will eventually be included in Parts 4-7. I'm currently working on Part 4.
   

4. Go to                                                http://www.geocities.com/jim_lancaster.geo/esl/cncph_esl.html
   

5. Jim Lancaster
   

Sructures

                                                          http://coastdaylight.com/ljames1/scph.html

1. Other Packinghouse web sites:                           http://ljames1.home.netcom.com/scph.html
   

2. contains articles and photos of PH in locations all over California and is an excellent resource for modeling such facilities.
   

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4. Packinghouse web site                                        http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/mdbquery.html       
   

5. Type: National Orange for Riverside Packinghouse
   

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7. In addition Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps           http://sanborn.umi.com
   

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9. from the 1930s, 40s and 50s contain PH dimensions and other features for most California communities.
   

                      

Specific Packing Houses

Corona Packing House

Packing House Web Site

1. The Corona packing house web page has been completed. You can go to it directly at
   

2.                                                 http://scph003.home.netcom.com/scph_riverside_corona.html
   

3. or through the packing house home page at
   

4.                               http://ljames1.home.netcom.com/scph.html
   

5. The page is mostly about packing houses on the Santa Fe but at least three had a PE spur as well.
   

Escondido Packing House

Packing House Web Site

1. Type: Escondido for Escondido Orange Ass’n PH
   

2.                               http://www.sdrm.org/stories/reefer/
   

Fillmore Packing Houses

Packing House Web Site

1. A web page created for the area has 63 photos of nine different packinghouses - four in Fillmore,                          http://scph004.home.netcom.com/fillmore-santa_paula.html
   

Goleta Lemon  Assoc. Packing House  -  Goleta / La Patera

1. La Patera was one of the prime growers and founders of the Goleta Lemon Association. The GLA packing house was built in 1936 on La Patera Lane. It burned down on January 25, 1950. The Association rebuilt on the same location but increased the size of the facility so that it was considered one of the largest lemon packing houses in the country. They continued to pack lemons there into the 1980's. The building is now used for other purposes but can be viewed from La Patera Rd (access off Hollister on the oceanside of HWY 101) or park at the Goleta Amtrak platform and walk 1/2 block. Nominal address is 28 La Patera Lane, Goleta. [See additional information in a message posted by Bob Chaparro on March 8, 2008
   

2.                                                  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/citrusmodeling/message/3136
   

New Edison Packing Houses

Packing House Web Site

1. This new packing house web site page expands the previous coverage of Edison, CA.
   

                                                http://www.geocities.com/jim_lancaster.geo/cnc/b-ssp/cncph_edison.html

                                                http://tinyurl.com/7m7yh2

1. Jim Lancaster
   

Ojai Packing Houses

Packing House Web Site

1. The photos have been added to my packing house web site. Go to http://ljames1. home.netcom. com/scph_ ventura.html and click on "Ojai" or "Fillmore & Santa Paula." On the latter page
   

2. the new photos are in the Kevet and Santa Paula sections.
   

3. Jim Lancaster
   

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5. Four Ways West recently released a new book called CALIFORNIA RAILS 1950'S: A Color Pictorial. It contains photos by Dallas Gilbertson. Joe Shine provided me with the "out-takes" from the book, i.e., seven color images of packing houses and an ice house in Ojai and Santa Paula, CA. The photos were taken by Gilbertson in June 1956!.
   

Riverside Packing Houses & SP Trackage

1. Cliff Prather scanned some SP SPINS books for me recently. The Riverside Branch SPINS book, dated May 13, 1974, has some interesting information on the packing houses on the branch.
   

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3. 1) The "Main Line" of the branch is shown as track #2000 from the Santa Ana River to the 395 Freeway (now SR 91, Riverside Freeway) and track #2100 from the freeway to the end of track in Riverside.
   

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5. 2) The National Orange Sunkist packing house in Riverside is probably the best known one on the branch. It was served by Santa Fe on the front side and SP on the backside. It had one spot (#22) on track #2150 with a capacity of 1 car.
   

6.                                     http://scph002.home.netcom.com/scph_riverside_riverside.html
   

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8. 3) Other industries on the same track (#2150) and north of National Orange were Olsen Furniture (spots #1-7 with a 5-car capacity);
   

9. Riverside Scrap Iron and Metal Co. (2-car capacity)
   

10. Crest Door Co. (spots #13-14-25-16-17 with a 3-car capacity).
    

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12. 4) South of National Orange on the same track (#2150) were Noll Mfg. Co. (spot #24 and a 1-car capacity) and the 7th Street Dock (4-car capacity). The loading dock is still there but the track is gone.
    

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14. 5) National Orange had a second packing house on the east side of the branch just south of Barton Road in Grand Terrace. It had one loading spot (#01) with a 1-car capacity on track #2007.
    

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16. 6) The LVW Brown Estate PH in Highgrove had two spurs, track #2043 and track #2045. Track #2043 was labeled "Dock Track" and had six loading spots: #11-12-13-14-15-16. The other track (#2145) was labeled "Outside Track" and had the same six loading spots.
    

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18. The capacity was 3 cars on each track so the spots must have been less than one car length apart. I assume this meant that loading cars spotted on the Outside Track was accomplished by passing through cars spotted on the Dock Track. The LVW Brown Estate PH is now the California Citrus Cooperative
    

19.                                                           http://www.geocities.com/jim_lancaster.geo/ph/scph/scph_riverside_highgrove.html
    

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21. 7) The Blue Banner PH in Riverside (where the SFRH&MS convention had a tour last summer) also had a Dock Track (#2143) and an Outside Track (#2145), both with loading spots #10-11-12-13-14-15. The capacity was 5 cars on each track.
    

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23. 8) Royal Citrus also had two packing houses. One was on track #2110 just south of the 395 Fwy. It had a 2-car capacity. The other Royal Citrus PH was at the end of the branch in Riverside on track #2170 with a 2-car capacity. It also used the end of track #2100 as an Outside track.
    

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25. 9) In all there were six packing houses with a total capacity of at least 22 cars.
    

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27. 10) There were 23 other industries on the branch with a total capacity of 94 cars. These included two produce companies and one fertilizer company.
    

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29. 11) There were also five team tracks and the loading dock with a capacity of 29 cars.
    

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31. The branch could still be pretty busy in 1974. It's much different 35 years later.
    

32. Jim Lancaster
    

Santa Barbara Packing Houses

Johnston Fruit Company - Santa Barbara

1. In Santa Barbara proper, there were at least two packing houses. The largest was the Johnston Fruit Company. Started in the 1890's, Johnson harvested and processed Goleta lemons until the Goleta Lemon Association was formed in 1936. They were very large and comprised of numerous buildings covering several blocks east of downtown and just north of the Southern Pacific tracks. The facility was expanded and included a large concrete tilt-up structure visible from the 101 freeway on the ocean side between Milpas St and Garden St. The nominal address is 12 South Calle Cesar Chavez. This is now West Marine and is a retail outlet. You can go inside and see the roof structure. If you park in their lot just toward the ocean, you can see more of the large complex with the clerestory roofs. Just toward the mountains on Calle Cesar Chavez is their new concrete tilt-up taking up the entire block north of Quinentos and west of Cesar Chavez.
   

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3. During a reconstruction effort, workers stripped some of the paint and there for all to see is lettering on the side of the building reading "Johnson Fruit Co. Sunkist Lemons".
   

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5. Photos are posted in the photos section under "Santa Barbara Packing House"  Included are some scans of several Johnson Fruit Co. lemon labels. Beside the fading sign discussed above, I included shots of the "new" building showing the arched roof and one of an older adjacent building with a clerestory roof. 
   

6. Bruce Morden 
   

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8. On YouTube, there is an interview of an old timer who worked at the Johnston Fruit Company, one of the major lemon packers there. The video is really just an audio interview and is a little slow but it has several stories about the packing plant and shows some vintage photos of the packing house. Here is a link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z2ng8vs9Js
   

Santa Barbara Lemon Growers Exchange - Santa Barbara

1. This other packing house was located on Montecito Street just west of the new (1905) Southern Pacific Santa Barbara Depot. I have posted a photo of the building in 1896. I do not believe anything of this earlier structure remains.
   

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3. There are no active packing houses in the area. Some of the buildings survive and I have placed photos in the groups photo section in an album called Santa Barbara Packing Houses.
   

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5. Most of the groves are gone. I had a neighbor that took his grove out within the last 5 years because it was costing more for the water to irrigate his grove than he could get in sales of his fruit. This does not even factor in labor, tree care (pruning, spraying, etc.) and transportation.
   

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7. That being said a new grove was planted within the last 6-7 years on the mountain side of the freeway just before Seacliff and is visible off the 101 north of Ventura. There are other groves in Carpinteria, Montecito, and Goleta. As mentioned in an earlier post there is one visible across from the Goleta Depot at 300 N. Los Carneros Road. This is the Bishop Ranch and is currently being considered for a housing development, so it will probably not be there long. Two blocks toward the mountains from the Goleta Depot is Cathedral Oaks Road and just across the road (mountain side) is La Patera Ranch and a very large grove. Originally, the headquarters for La Patera Ranch was the Stow House which is in the same park as the relocated Goleta Depot. W.W. Stow who purchased La Patera in 1871, experimented with grafting Lisbon Lemons onto the California rootstock. His son planted a 30 acre grove of these lemons in 1874. The acreage in the Goleta area continued to grow.
   

Santa Paula Packing Houses

Packing House Web Site

1. The photos have been added to my packing house web site. Five images are in Santa Paula taken in 2004. There are also 9 photos of four other buildings in Santa Paula. On the latter page the new photos are in the Kevet and Santa Paula sections. The citrus packing houses were along the ex-SP Santa Paula branch.
   

2. Jim Lancaster
   

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4. Go to                                                                 http://ljames1. home.netcom. com/scph_ ventura.html
   

5. and click on "Ojai" or "Fillmore & Santa Paula."
   

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7. Four Ways West recently released a new book called CALIFORNIA RAILS 1950'S: A Color Pictorial. It contains photos by Dallas Gilbertson. Joe Shine provided me with the "out-takes" from the book, i.e., seven color images of packing houses and an ice house in Ojai and Santa Paula, CA. The photos were taken by Gilbertson in June 1956!
   

Villa Park Packing House

Central Lemon Growers Assoc. Villa Park Plant Facility

1. Also on YouTube is a modern lemon packing plant video showing the process from receipt from the field to finished cases.
   

2.                     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzraJzWxHrI
   

3. Bruce Morden
   

Visalia, Exeter & Porterville Packing Houses

1. At a presentation at the Southern Pacific Historical & Technical Society convention in Bakersfield, CA covering the Southern Pacific's Exeter and Richgrove Branches as well as the Visalia Electric. Most of the photos used in those presentations, plus a lot of new photos, have been posted to my packing house web site. There are 50 web pages with several hundred images.
   

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3. The branches (and locations) covered are:
   

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5. 1. Joint SP-ATSF Exeter Branch & Richgrove Branch (Calico, Hollis, Jasmin, Quality, Richgrove, Vestal, Ducor, Trocha & Jovista)
   

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7. 2. SP Exeter Branch (Terra Bella, Elmco, Porterville, Strathmore, Lindsay, Exeter, Ivanhoe, Dinuba, Reedley, Lac Jac, Uva, Sanger & Locans)
   

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9. 3. ATSF Porterville-Orosi District (Ultra, Magnolia, Sunland, Porterville, Euclid, Strathmore, Lindsay, Neil, Exeter, Hillmaid, Redbanks, Rayo, Orosi & Orange Cove)
   

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11. 4. ATSF Visalia District (Visalia, Cutler, Sultana, Dinuba, Reedley, Lac Jac, Parlier, Del Rey & Lone Star)
    

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13. 5. Visalia Electric (Exeter, Rocky Hill, Goodale, Sequoia, East Redbanks & Redbanks)
    

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15. The starting point for visiting the packing houses on the eastside lines of the San Joaquin Valley is
    

16.                                  http://www.geocities.com/jim_lancaster.geo/esl/cncph_esl.html
    

17.                                  http://tinyurl.com/lyf7qc
    

18. Jim Lancaster
    

Whittier Packing Houses

Whittier Historical Society Web Site

1. The brief narrative below is more about the Southern Pacific than the packing houses themselves, but it does provide background. This material appears on the website of the Whittier Historical Society and Museum.
   

2.                                                                     http://www.whittiermuseum.org/index.html
   

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4. Whittier packing houses at:               http://scph002.home.netcom.com/scph_la_whittier.html
   

Modeling Prototype Citrus Packing House

1. Most of us model rail-served houses, and these typically had a loading platform trackside of two to five car lengths (sometimes larger). One should provide truck unloading capability (if one models that side of the house), even if only in the form of a roadway running behind the structure.
   

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3. It would not be uncommon to have a dozen packing houses in a single town. Usually this is too many to model. The usual modeler’s choice of a single packing house per town is probably not very realistic in many cases.
   

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5. Don't forget the sounds. Like any factory in season the packing houses produced constant machinery noise and the rumbling of the steel wheeled hand trucks traveling across the wood decking and steel ramps.
   

6. Ken Parks
   

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Packing House Models (most information from Jim Lancaster’s website)

1. If you need an inspiration for scratch-building a citrus packing house, I recommend Jim Lancaster's website as a starting point. And remember, although packing houses usually were very large structures, if you just model the rail loading side you can get by with a shallow relief building. http://coastdaylight.com/ljames1/scph.html
   

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3. If you decide to build a commercial model of a packing house, there are several available in HO scale.
   

Alpine Division Models

1. For years the Sydam model, now marketed by Alpine Division Models, was about the only model packing house available. Unfortunately, this model is just too small to represent a typical packing house. Alpine now has a larger packing house, however, the doors need to be relocated a bit to accommodate an accurate length of a 41- foot ice bunker reefer model.
   

C C Crow Packing House

1. This firm occasionally produces an HO scale model of a citrus packing house that actually is based on an apple packing shed. The modifications to the apple packing shed do make it an acceptable, but small citrus packing house.
   

National Orange Packing House

1. YesterYear Models produced a scaled-down but highly accurate model of the National Orange packing house once located in Riverside. HO—with a 13” by 16” foot print. Drawings of this prototype are available on the Library of Congress' website.
   

Showcase Miniatures Packing House

1. Showcase Miniatures produced the Sunkist San Fernando Heights Orange Association Packing House in S, HO and N scale. The low relief design is an excellent way to conserve space.
   

2. The prototype of this model is typical of the many structures that served the citrus industries along railroad sidings and branch lines. This particular model design comes from the structure that was once located in the San Fernando Valley and was served by both the Southern Pacific and the Pacific Electric. The area's packing houses were along the PE's line that was built north from Van Nuys in 1912-13 along Sepulveda Blvd. and connected with the SP's San Joaquin Route main line near Brand Blvd. and San Fernando Road.
   

1. Images of the prototype may be viewed on Jim Lancaster's excellent packing house site at:
   

2.                                             http://scph001.home.netcom.com/scph_la_san_fernando.html
   

Walthers Packing House

1. Walthers New Citrus Packing House (SP-served facility) issued an HO-scale citrus packing house from their Cornerstone Series. An image of this model, identified as the "Valley Citrus Packers", can be viewed at:
   

2.                                                                     http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/933-2926
   

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4. Compare the image above to this image from Jim Lancaster's website (go to the bottom of the page on the link):
   

5.                                    http://ljames1.home.netcom.com/scph_orange_sa.html
   

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7. There was an actual prototype for this building in Santa Ana, CA. However, the prototype was a canning facility and not a citrus packing house served by the Southern Pacific.
   

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9. This is a nice but undersized representation of a packing house. To make this, or other structures look more like an actual citrus packing house I suggest removing most of trackside windows, adding an annex for receiving box shook and scratch building a signature accessory seen on most every citrus packing house, a cull bin. Examples of cull bins can be found on Jim Lancaster's website.
   

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11. Because of the small size of the model, it’s recommended to either purchase two kits to double the length of the building or using the parts from one kit to make a background flat using the two sides of the building.
    

12. Bob Chaparro
    

Lettering & Numbering

1. The Sunkist logo with shadowed block letters came into use in June 1955 and the logo for the 40's and most of the 50's was Sunkist in outline fashion.
   

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3. The stylized Sunkist logo didn’t come into usage until the late 1960’s.
   

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5. The shadowed block lettering, which figured so prominently on packing houses, usually on a dark blue background, was not so recent as seen in older photos.
   

Modeling Citrus Packing House Lettering & Numbering

Sunkist Decals

Microscale   (87-1268)

1. If building citrus packing houses to be served by PFE reefers you now have decals for these structures. The decal set is called the Sunkist Packing House Signs and Lettering set. The HO stock number is 87-1268. It includes two sheets with one containing the words Sunkist in red/orange and black, oranges, lemons and grapefruit in red/orange, yellow and black and green along with numbers in black for numbering the packing house doors. The second page has words that can be arranged to create many different packing house names. A second set in what I believe is N scale is stock number 60-1268.
   

Microscale   (87-771  &  48-299)

1. Microscale offers a decal set (87-771) specifically for packinghouses in HO. This is generally appropriate for the mid 1950s and later although the stylized Sunkist logo didn’t come into usage until the late 1960’s. Microscale 87-771 and 48-299 sets do say "1955+" on them. The stylized orange logos would not be appropriate for 1955 layout. The shadowed block lettering--which figured so prominently on packing houses, usually on a dark blue background--was not so recent as seen in older photos.
   

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3. They are very nice sets, however, most of the Sunkist logos are modern--that is from the 1970s when the current Sunkist logo was created. The National Orange signage is fine but the stylized orange is much later.
   

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5. Both sheets in each set are shown on Microscale's web site: http://www.microscale.com/ under new releases.There's an instruction sheet included that mentions the Packing House web site and includes several packinghouse photos to show how they were lettered.
   

6. Bob Chaparro
   

Messecar Custom Decals

1. I have created a custom set of decals for Sunkist Packinghouses—if interested contact me off line.
   

2.     Clinic by William Messecar
   

3.     P O Box 7750 Kent, Washington 98042        Santafe-mail@Comcast.net
   

          

Citrus Related Industries

Puritan Ice Company – Guadalupe, CA

1. Located in Guadalupe, the ice plant next to the Union Pacific (former Southern Pacific) tracks was  demolished. The Puritan Ice Company,  also had a plant in Santa Barbara and other locations as well.
   

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3. This plant was located just south of downtown Guadalupe, less than a hundred yards northeast of the intersection of State Highway 1 and Main Street (Route 166). The main entrance was on Obispo Street. This plant provided ice to a 485 foot single platform ice deck just to the west owned by PFE. The deck served up to ten cars, had no roof and was built in 1928. The deck has been gone for a number of years.
   

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5. There were three related facilities at this location:
   

6. Puritan Ice Company (4585 West Main Street)
   

7. Apio, Inc. (4575 West Main Street)
   

8. Obispo Street Cooling (151 Obispo Street)
   

9. They were three separately owned facilities that utilize the same ammonia refrigeration system to refrigerate storage space and process equipment (i.e. chillers, ice makers, etc.). The facilities are situated on contiguous properties that share the same ammonia refrigeration system (both equipment and ammonia). From earlier images it appears that Puritan owned Obispo Cooling and
   

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12. The ammonia used by all three facilities originated at the Puritan Ice liquid receiver. This vessel had a 1,500 gallon capacity and was the location for loading ammonia. Liquid ammonia from this vessel was used in the Block Plant ice tanks and ice storage room. Large blocks of ice were produced and stored until ready for delivery at this facility.
    

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14. The Block Plant also had the capability to compress and condense the ammonia vapor from the ice tanks, ice storage room, and various other equipment used by the two other facilities. This ammonia vapor is condensed to its liquid form and recycled back to the liquid receiver.
    

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16. There are a few pictures from inside and around the plant on Flickr.com.
    

Modeling the Icing Process

1. If you want to show the complete Icing Process on your layout, you need 3 things:
   

2. citrus packing plant, wood crate manufacturer, and icing plant with loading platform(s).
   

Modeling an Icing Platform

Walther’s

1. I would recommend AGAINST the Walthers icing platform, as it has too short a repeat length for structure elements, and if you line up one car correctly with the drop-down aprons, no other cars will be lined up correctly. Of course you could probably kitbash it to be correctly spaced.
   

2. Tony Thompson
   

Modeling the Ice Deck

Walthers Icing Platform

1. - Walthers Ice House and Icing Platform  (PFE Type)Kit no. 933-3049
   

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3. I would recommend AGAINST the Walthers icing platform, as it has too short a repeat length for structure elements, and if you line up one car correctly with the drop-down aprons, no other cars will be lined up correctly. Of course you could probably kitbash it to be correctly spaced.
   

4. Tony Thompson
   

Sunkist Citrus Juice & Oils Processing Plant - Ontario, CA

Exchange Orange Products  Company

1. Here is a link to images of the former Sunkist Citrus Juice & Oils processing plant in Ontario:
   

2.                                                                         http://www.flickr.com/photos/15416526@N06/sets/72157607376555279/
   

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4. There is nothing railroady in these, unfortunately.
   

5. This facility originally was known as the Exchange Orange Products Company.
   

6. Bob Chaparro
   

Modeling Other Citrus Related Industies

Modeling Pre-Cooling / Icing Facility

1. My model was almost entirely kitbashed from Walthers parts--R. J. Frost Cold Storage, icing platforms, and foundry canopy. The pre-cooler apparatus are four sections of flexible straws, telescoped together and painted. I used Walthers ice decks for the top surface of both decks and the underpinnings of the ice-only deck. The pre-cooler deck has solid concrete walls, so is done with styrene. The shed needs roofing material, and everything still needs weathering. Even at about a fourth of the size of the prototype, it is still a very large building in HO.
   

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3. The shed is 24" x 12", the main building is 20" x 7" and the machinery section is 7" x 4". I didn't have much room for a "B Yard" itself, so I use it only for reefers--my "A Yard" is my main freight facility on the San Bernardino end of the layout. My "B Yard" will hold about 24 reefers.
   

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5. I have added a few more photos to the modeling folder I created yesterday.
   

6. Tom Cockle 
   

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8. Available HO Structure Kits
   

9. -Walthers Ice House and Icing Platform  (PFE Type)Kit no. 933-3049
   

10. -C C Crow offers a concrete Orange Store house.
    

Citrus Industry Structures/Scenery Articles

1. Ice House and Platform        RMC Apr 1970
   

2. SP Ice Dock        RMC Apr 1987
   

3. Sunkist Packing Plant (SP)        RMC Aug 1991
   

4. Super detailing PFE Icing Platforms in HO and N ScaleRMJ April 2000
   

5. Modeling the Reefer icing IndustryRMJ April 2000