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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by psrpom239</i> <br /><br />While we are mainly interested in theOrange County to Ventura area, we do have some discussions on areas to the North, especially when we discuss PFE operations. In addition, one of our main supporting links on packing houses (Historic Packing Houses and Other Industrial Structures in Southern California at http://ljames1.home.netcom.com/scph.html) recently has expanded coverage up to the San Joaquin Valley. <br />And many of our resource files and operations discussions apply to refrigerator car and perishable operations anywhere in the country. <br /> <br />Bob Chaparro <br />Group Moderator <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />Dear Bob, <br /> <br />Its great to see a new specialized group that is focusing in on a very important California industry that has been overlooked for years within railfanning and modeling circles. And it is your group, but it was the inclusion of the San Joaquin Valley area into the co-op, that created the "California Fruit Growers Exchange," what all of us now know as Sunkist, and the majority of modelers or historian are looking at the industry post March 27, 1905. <br /> <br />Does this group also support discussion of the Exchange's buying arm; the Fruit Growers Supply? A small plug here: <br /> <br />[url]http://home.att.net/~lassen.logger/fgs06.htm[/url] <br /> <br />With a photo here: <br /> <br />[url]http://home.att.net/~lassen.logger/p9606-01.htm[/url] <br /> <br />This is a subjective statement, but I think in the last 100 years, the California citrus industry, which was the California Fruit Growers Exchange was about eating citrus and not about juicing citrus. <br /> <br />Jim - Lawton, NV MP 236
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