cx500Stock cars would get unloaded as soon as possible on arrival at destination. That is why they would often be handled on the head end of a train; the yard engine would be standing by, ready to spot them for unloading as soon as the road power cut off.
If the packing plant is close to the yard and if it isn't and the urban local is gone then what?
Railroads got out of that business for a reason.
Truckers don't want it but,they're stuck with that business.
There's Government regulations that's needs to be followed and of course there's PETA.
Larry
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I guess that if the local is out somewhere , the yard engine would have to move the stock cars to the packing plant. You DO NOT want to have to pay for dead animals. You DO want to get the m to the packing plant s soon as possible.
caldreamer I guess that if the local is out somewhere , the yard engine would have to move the stock cars to the packing plant. You DO NOT want to have to pay for dead animals. You DO want to get the m to the packing plant s soon as possible.
Nope it doesn't work like that..There are company and union job classifications and work agreements that must be followed by both parties.
It doesn't look like it is, Joe.
https://www.perduefarms.com/
31149 Old Ocean City Rd., Salisbury.
Scroll just a little North, and see the huge Perdue Agribusiness, which is rail served, but deals in grain. It's all the same company.
Mike.
My You Tube
Americold Logistics in Fremont, NE is a rail served chicken processing plant that ships frozen chickens outbound.
They also have a facility in Russelville, AR for frozen chicken (Tyson foods plant to the east).
Dave H. Painted side goes up. My website : wnbranch.com
Could the answers to some of your questions be found in Kalmbach's book that covers the livestock and meat packing industry?
Good possible resource. Unforunatly no one made a poultry car in N scale. I do not know of one in HO either.
caldreamer Good possible resource. Unforunatly no one made a poultry car in N scale. I do not know of one in HO either.
Westerfield models makes some double deck cars, dont know what service.
NVM, you said you were in N scale..
BRAKIEIf the packing plant is close to the yard and if it isn't and the urban local is gone then what? Railroads got out of that business for a reason.
Very often the packing plant and the terminating yard were close, since both were in the industrial part of a city. If they were separated, the through train might set the cars off directly to the slaughter house, or at a satellite yard that had a yard engine that would do the necessary final spot. Most major cities had multiple local yards at strategic locations, complete with yardmasters and local based industrial assignments. Mostly gone now, just as the livestock business has vanished.
cx500 BRAKIE If the packing plant is close to the yard and if it isn't and the urban local is gone then what? Railroads got out of that business for a reason. Very often the packing plant and the terminating yard were close, since both were in the industrial part of a city. If they were separated, the through train might set the cars off directly to the slaughter house, or at a satellite yard that had a yard engine that would do the necessary final spot. Most major cities had multiple local yards at strategic locations, complete with yardmasters and local based industrial assignments. Mostly gone now, just as the livestock business has vanished.
BRAKIE If the packing plant is close to the yard and if it isn't and the urban local is gone then what? Railroads got out of that business for a reason.
If the work rules and job classification allowed a yard crew to do another man's job which they would not. A yard man's job was not to deliver cars but,to make up trains..Even a major terminal would have a five or four man crew (depending on era) that added and removed cabooses from trains plus switch the caboose service track.
However,some roads used a traveling switch engine to cover a ice house track and a slaughterhouse stock pens and switch out reefers. This is all that crew did. A five man crew made one trip a day to do around 4-5 hours of work.
A 4 or 5 man crew, BOY was that featherbedding. But that was the rules back then.
caldreamer A 4 or 5 man crew, BOY was that featherbedding. But that was the rules back then.
Really.
Lets see you switch a 30 car cut without RCL and without radios around a curve where the engineer is on the off side.
Really? There was no featherbedding to it.
Every man had a job to do even if that meant he had to ride the roof of boxcars in order to relay hand signals to the engineer. The conductor's main job to supervise and ensure work and safety rules was followed.
The engineer ran the engine while the fireman tended his firing duties.
Two brakemen did the actual switching.Recall one might be riding the top of boxcars to relay hand signals and that left one man on the ground to do the work.
Same for the diesel era and some railroads had firemen into the 70s and he still had a job to do..
Where's the featherbedding?
That man with that RCL can not do the amount of work we did.
joe323 I have been trying to get the address of the Perdue chicken plant in Salisbury MD with no luck I want to Google Earth it to see if it is rail served.
I have been trying to get the address of the Perdue chicken plant in Salisbury MD with no luck I want to Google Earth it to see if it is rail served.
I tried to sell my two cents worth, but no one would give me a plug nickel for it.
I don't have a leg to stand on.