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Nostalgia & History > Three low-sun shots from MP 165 in the early 80s.Date: 09/22/18 20:55 Three low-sun shots from MP 165 in the early 80s. Author: trainjunkie I've posted plenty of photos from Fullerton in the 1980s but here's three more I don't think I've ever posted that I stumbled across today, all taken with the sun low on the horizon.
Some previous Fullerton posts. https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?1,740663 https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?11,2088344 https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?11,2077700 https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?11,2091157    Date: 09/22/18 22:31 Re: Three low-sun shots from MP 165 in the early 80s. Author: JimBaker Boy!!, Fullerton doesn't look that anymore!
James R.(Jim) Baker Whittier, CA Date: 09/22/18 23:44 Re: Three low-sun shots from MP 165 in the early 80s. Author: aronco I was transferred to Fullerton as the night assistant trainmaster on March 13, 1972. That summer, we had a booming perishable season with carloads of oranges, cauliflower, broccoli, celery and frozen foods, sometimes as much as 25 carloads each night. Of course, Santa Fe ran out of refrigerator cars, both mechanical and ice reefers. Each day, we would get our supply of reefers, perhaps 10 ice cars and maybe 10 mechanicals, which we would parcel out to the various shippers. The ice cars were supposed to be filled with ice and San Bernardino, but their ice plant ran out of ice, so the ice house across the street from the depot in Fullerton would drive his 1948 Ford flatbed truck with a conveyor mounted over the cab perpendicular to each of the "dry ' icers" we received and in the hot August sun, his men would load 6000 lbs. of ice in the bunkers of each car so we could send them to our customers that evening. I remember the area across from the depot very well indeed!
And then, Santa Fe was running the RHF concept trains ( LA to Kansas City) every 4 or 6 hours, and all the loads of perishables had to make the midnite RHF train at Fullerton, which sent two or three switchers scurrying about Orange County, even up the Kathryn spur, to get everything in place. Great fun railroading! Norm Norman Orfall Helendale, CA TIOGA PASS, a private railcar Date: 09/23/18 05:24 Re: Three low-sun shots from MP 165 in the early 80s. Author: trainjunkie Good stuff Norm. I remember the ice house well, although by the 80s it only iced refrigerated truck trailers. It was still fun to watch them stick that big hose through the small hatch in the rear door of the reefer trailers and blow chipped ice all over the load inside.The building is still there and, IIRC, is now some sort of church.
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