Packing Houses, Packing Sheds and Other Industrial Structures in Central and Northern California

Historic Packing Houses, Packing Sheds and Other Industrial Structures
in Central and Northern California

Eastside Lines: Southern Pacific, Santa Fe and Visalia Electric

Web Page Created January 8, 2009
Last Updated August 27, 2011

SP Exeter Branch

Strathmore, CA

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February 1974 SPINS Diagram. (James Lancaster collection)

Stark Packing Corp. packing house, July 2006. (James Lancaster photo)

Stark Packing Corp. sign, November 1992. (Cliff Prather photo)

Stark Packing Corp. packing house, August 2006. (James Lancaster photo)

Additional buildings of the Stark Packing Corp., August 2006. (James Lancaster photo)

A San Joaquin Valley RR freight train approaches the Strathmore Packing House (right) in November 1992. (Cliff Prather photo)

Strathmore Packing House, July 2006. This newer packing house was located about a half mile west of the SJVRR tracks.
(James Lancaster photo)

By March 2008 the Strathmore Packing House had become the Villa Park Orchards Association packing house. VPOA had closed their headquarters and packing house in Orange, CA about a year earlier. (James Lancaster photo)

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