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<p>I spent too much time in those places. The Kit does build into a reasonable meat plant.</p><p>The ramp on the side takes cattle up to the kill floor. Then fluids, guts, meats etc are all processed downwards to the loading dock. It is clear to me that perhaps there is no "Blast" freezing units on site, nor are there any brine houses for hides and facilities to handle guts and body parts that people are not supposed to eat that will be sent out.</p><p>Having said that, this walthers kit will have the feedlot or holding area very near to or part of the entrance to the killfloor ramp. The cattle can be brought in by truck or by rail and unloaded into the pens. I think a full bore meat plant can process 1000-4000 kills per day. But assuming the size of the facility I will call it 200 kills per shift and 4 reefer loads of swinging beef shipped out each 8 hour shift.</p><p>I dont know how many cattle that can fit in a railroad stock car, some of these are like 2000 pounds. I guess 20 can fit in a cattle car. Suddenly you see a need to carry siding capacity next to the stock pen with room for 4 cattle cars. And a second siding next to that one for more stock cars with more cattle. Call it 8 stock cars in the second siding. You can probably extend the cattle pen siding to the end of the building for a total of 12 to 16 cattle cars every 8 hours.</p><p>Your 4 reefers sit at the loading dock on the other side of the facility for 8 hours as they cool down constantly (They are iced before loading)</p><p>You can have about 12 Reefers each day on a seperate icing facility elsewhere on your railroad. By switching out the loaded ones and dropping off 4 iced empties to be loaded during the next 8 hour shift.. you can keep pretty busy.</p><p>If you have additional room for more buildings then you can place those buildings near the main facility (No windows... minimum of doors because of the stink) and you can run sidings to those buildings. Tank cars of brine inbound and older tank cars taking away inedible fluids to be burned or re-processed into something else.. like medicines or make up. You can have the oldest boxcars taking your hides away. Gonolas for the rest. Those bones and stuff probably gets burned up on site to become char.</p><p>Just one siding is not going to cut it on that meat plant.</p>
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