http://groups.yahoo.com/group/citrusmodeling/ Citrus Industry Modeling Group Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:13:35 GMT Bob C http://groups.yahoo.com/group/citrusmodeling/message/3870 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/citrusmodeling/message/3870 Bruce - I've yet to find a good photo of a reefer cleanout track. From what I've read the clean out track typically had the following elements: Infrastructure Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:53:00 GMT Bruce Morden http://groups.yahoo.com/group/citrusmodeling/message/3869 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/citrusmodeling/message/3869 Can someone point me to a photo of a clean-out track for refrigerator cars? I assume they were cleaned before loading and in fact probably before icing. What Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:06:04 GMT Bob C http://groups.yahoo.com/group/citrusmodeling/message/3868 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/citrusmodeling/message/3868 I just became aware of a new railroad book, Railroads and Depots of Orange County, by Rob Richardson. This book would be a good resource for modeling that Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:15:10 GMT n6nvr@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/citrusmodeling/message/3867 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/citrusmodeling/message/3867 Bob Smaus had tree making features both in a MR article and IIRC in the MR book, Modeling the '50's. they looked pretty good. but I think I really have to Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:13:45 GMT Jeff Smith http://groups.yahoo.com/group/citrusmodeling/message/3866 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/citrusmodeling/message/3866 Bob, Those trees look great, I find that many times modelrs put too many oranges or lemons on the trees. From looking from the top down you really do not see Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:12:35 GMT Frank Pearsall http://groups.yahoo.com/group/citrusmodeling/message/3865 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/citrusmodeling/message/3865 You could scratch build scale orange crates to catch the ones that fall off... Pretend it's harvest time. Frank Pearsall Brevard, N.C. Narrow Trak 10 (Oct 8, Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:07:53 GMT Bob C http://groups.yahoo.com/group/citrusmodeling/message/3864 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/citrusmodeling/message/3864 Some of the best citrus trees I have seen on a model railroad are on the Corona Model Railroad Society's layout. Here is a link to their tree making clinic: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:53:41 GMT Darrel http://groups.yahoo.com/group/citrusmodeling/message/3863 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/citrusmodeling/message/3863 Greetings All. Wanted to roll this question out to the group. I've been working on Orange Trees for my HO Module, and wanted to see if there are any ideas out Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:06:40 GMT xocboy2001 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/citrusmodeling/message/3862 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/citrusmodeling/message/3862 maybe off topic(not citrus), but I came accross a b&w photo of a "casaba melon packing house"on a Placentia digital website. No tracks or other landmarks Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:53:20 GMT Matthew http://groups.yahoo.com/group/citrusmodeling/message/3861 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/citrusmodeling/message/3861 Bob, As the former editor-in-chief of the trade magazine "Boxboard Containers" from 1999 to 2001, I can shed a little light on this, but it is a large and Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:49:17 GMT n6nvr@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/citrusmodeling/message/3860 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/citrusmodeling/message/3860 I started working at a market in 1969 and we sometimes got the odd crate once in a while, but it was not for high volume fruit. We were in South Pasadena and Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:18:18 GMT Bob C http://groups.yahoo.com/group/citrusmodeling/message/3859 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/citrusmodeling/message/3859 Shipping Containers: Wood Or Corrugated Fiberboard? Wooden packing crates once were used to ship oranges and lemons before the use of corrugated fiberboard Wed, 20 Jan 2010 01:51:52 GMT Bob C http://groups.yahoo.com/group/citrusmodeling/message/3858 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/citrusmodeling/message/3858 The Citrus Roots - Preserving Citrus Heritage Foundation (http://www.citrusroots.com/) has an exhibit available at Cal Poly Pomona. Another display will be Fri, 15 Jan 2010 02:24:13 GMT Richard Hock http://groups.yahoo.com/group/citrusmodeling/message/3857 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/citrusmodeling/message/3857 The last two issues of Model Railroader has had articles on modeling the meat packing industry. They talk about the difference between produce and meat refers, Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:07:18 GMT bdmorden@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/citrusmodeling/message/3856 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/citrusmodeling/message/3856 Has any one on the list modeled pooling of the ice melt on their layout? Ice dock? packing house? delivery location? Do any of you have photos of layouts or