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[quote user="kingcoal"]Reefers would frequently be "pre-cooled" prior to spotting at a loading shed. This allowed the lading to be loaded into a clean car at the right temperature. I am guessing the Rigby style track may have been used for that.[/quote] This is very possible.  I am still figuring out the traffic patterns, but I have an circa 1951/52 industry list that lists Swift and a couple other meat packing houses as rail served customers.  Dont know if they were the actual slaughterhouses or distribution to local stores.  Notice also there is a stock yard adjacent to the ice house, again, not sure why they put it there. The Ice House/stock yard track has a direct connection via 1 yard ladder and one crossover to the outbound main line (from Boston) on the Western Route.  The crossovers appear to be set up so that a train can also come off the Eastern and run right to the ice house/stock yard track. Not sure why both were on the same track?  But it seems to indicate the traffic pattern. Note that the "Eastern" and "Western" route names do not actually indicate their order of appearance.  The name Eastern came from the name of the original owner, the Eastern Railroad.   The Western route was the original Boston and Maine Route into Portland.   When the B&M gained control of the Eastern, they started calling it the eastern division, then Eastern route of the Portland Division. The Eastern was abandoned in sections, starting with the bridge across the Fore River into Portland Proper (1920s), then in larger sections starting in 1944.  Only the section from PT tower 1 to the Fore River remains today (plus a small section in Saco, Me).   Anyway, both lines go to Boston (and other points West and South). I seem to have gotten off topic.  Off the the Outbound main you take switch 3, 7 and 9 to track 19 (Ice/Stock Yard).  Then down 19 to 71/69 run around the yard ladder 'C' back on to track 69.  Stay on 69 until crossover at Ladder 'G'.  Run down that track through switch 75 and 29, and you are back on the main line.  Note that somewhere in there power was likely exchanged (Rigby is a Division Point for both BM and MEC, though runthrough power was used on some trains (mostly passenger from what I can tell), indicated by MEC time table special instructions).    This is all guesswork on my part, I am still trying to find additional info on this.
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