Freelance 2012

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There's citrus in Central California, but very little now in Southern. The real estate is too expensive now for orange groves. There's a lot of cattle raised in Central and Northern California, but it's in covered sheds in the San Joaquin Valley, not much in the open there, but at higher altitudes and farther north, it's done. Cattle feed is major rail traffic in California.

JWB, I slept a night over the new learned lesson. I will continue with a citrus facility well knowing that I may cross the border from freelance to fiction this time. Technically speaking only the two wing buildings will be replaced this time.
This is a great link http://coastdaylight.com/ljames1/scph.html for historic packing houses. As you explained 2012 is a bad timeframe to look for still operating facilities but the more modern buildings can be used very well after 1980. This one in Edison, CA (about 150 miles north of LA) http://coastdaylight.com/cnc/edison_shed_9-08_01_jl.jpg was demolished in 2008. Proportions and roof look similar to mine.
However, I did also have a closer look at the cheese plant in Lemoore, CA. It is a great facility with thousands of details and very well accessible with street view. Two sets of the pan bakery kit (lots of $$$.....) might be a good starting point (need for lots of slim, tall tanks). I will keep the cheese plant in my mind for a possible future main revision.