Modeling The Citrus Industry In G-Scale

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A G-scale member of my Yahoo group wrote (below) asking for help. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thank you.

Bob Chaparro
Moderator
Citrus Industry Modeling Group
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/citrusmodeling/

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I am a member of the Las Vegas Garden Railway Society.

I would like to know if models of packing house, orange groves, etc. are available to purchase. If not how can I get help modifying my current layout for modeling the citrus industry.

Thanks,
Jim

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jim
no models that i know of i beleave. you will have to build from scratch sorry i am not of much help living in old citrus area.

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Very interesting mate but I am sorry I cannot help.

We have a few lemons on this forum though.

Rgds Ian

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no specific packing house models that I know of either…

Piko, Pola and Garden Texture all sell generic “warehouse” type kits that could easily be modified with new signage to represent a packing plant.

As for orange groves? small miniature shrubs in uniformly planted rows?

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hI psrpom239
No kits that I know of
But all the packing sheds i have seen look like lare corrugated iron warehouses
so would not be too hard to make.
I think I saw a cold store kit once that may have posabilaties??
regards John

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packing houses over around me that are gone were wooden buildings. i did see a block packing house on I-4 near lakeland that Kraft owned but it ain’t kraft anymore.
its amazing how much changes in 30yrs.

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Well, I don’t know how much help this will be but you could easily make scale oranges with Fimo or Sculpey brand clay. Like a few others have said there are some nice warehouse kits out there, you would just have to change the signs.

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Hi Bob,
This may help some. My partner makes RR car loads for citrus, that looks very convincing. Using a mix of styrofoam balls abut 1/16" of an inch in dia, mixing it up with orange paint and glue. He also is scratch building a “Hunt Brothers” packing house. If your interested I can put you in touch with him.
Sincerely,
Cracker Pete
P & S Central RR

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crackerpete
the one load of citrus in you picture you sent me looked sharp. ben