doctorwayneI'm guessing that most responders to this thread are already "in their cups", so it's likely that no one has checked-out the link which I provided. There was a reference in it about alcohol, but it was in regard to beer, rather than whiskey. Wayne
Wayne
Mark P.
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My official modeling location is Lyle, WA. There used to be stock pens there for sheep. I've decided to assume that the animals were being transported to/from different pastures.
That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.
Moving to the other subject, I do appreciate the recipes that have been put forward. They do sound delicious. Being the lazy slug that I am, I just make Martinis (Tanqueray 10).
Ed
Just remember to park thoes cattle cars down wind of any passenger station!
NP Eddie the BN offered unused stock cars to grain brokers to haul grain. All they had to do was to steam clean the cars and board up the sides.
I was wondering why my grain never made it to the coast, I missed the board it up part.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
I have a good bunch of the Bowser PRR K11 40' and K9 50' Livestock cars.
One BLI "mooing" Livestock and one Athearn ''smoking'' stock car, the Athearn car has a DCC decoder and a smoke unit in it, just enter up the car number and turn up the throttle. I guess somehow a smoldering fire got started, so that Train will need to go into a siding and call the local FD. Of course there are no animals in that car.
PC101I guess somehow a smoldering fire got started, so that Train will need to go into a siding and call the local FD. Of course there are no animals in that car.
What?? No Smokey the Bear, disguised as a version of Lionel's giraffe car. I betcha smoke and mirrors could likely pull it off.
Railroads never delivered cattle to slaughter houses. They will transport them to other pens. In which farmers will buy the animals to fatten up and take them to slaughter.
There's a Union Pacific meat promotion video on YouTube that I watched two -three years ago.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IR9cMEMd-To&t=37s
Amtrak America, 1971-Present.
angelob6660Railroads never delivered cattle to slaughter houses.
While that is technically correct, they did deliver cattle to pens that were immediately attached to a slaughter house, the cattle went directly from the car to a pen to the slaughter house. Everything being within a couple hundred yards. Those types of plants were all over the midwest.
For example Omaha Stockyards, rail lines on one side, stock pens in the middle and slaughter houses on the other. Scroll down an there is a picture of the Armour slaughterhouse, rail cars and stock pens all within a stone's throw of each other.
Employment - Invisible Histories - Omaha Public School (ops.org)
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dehusman angelob6660 Railroads never delivered cattle to slaughter houses. While that is technically correct, they did deliver cattle to pens that were immediately attached to a slaughter house, the cattle went directly from the car to a pen to the slaughter house. Everything being within a couple hundred yards. Those types of plants were all over the midwest. For example Omaha Stockyards, rail lines on one side, stock pens in the middle and slaughter houses on the other. Scroll down an there is a picture of the Armour slaughterhouse, rail cars and stock pens all within a stone's throw of each other. Employment - Invisible Histories - Omaha Public School (ops.org)
angelob6660 Railroads never delivered cattle to slaughter houses.
I grew up in Omaha and I remember those warm, humid summer days when the breeze was out of the south and it got quite pungent at our house on the near north side. The nickname of Omaha South High School was the Packers. Go figure. This was at a time when Omaha had replaced Chicago as having the largest stockyards in the world. The stockyards and slaughterhouses have left as they went west to be closer to where the cattle was raised.
The Rise and Fall of the Omaha Stockyards (livinghistoryfarm.org)
John-NYBW What would be the purpose then of all the meat reefers? I remember I worked at an ice house in the summer of 1970 and we also did a small cold storage business. I remember unloading a reefer of frozen meat. It had been boxed up and I think it was beef but I'm not positive about that.
What would be the purpose then of all the meat reefers?
I remember I worked at an ice house in the summer of 1970 and we also did a small cold storage business. I remember unloading a reefer of frozen meat. It had been boxed up and I think it was beef but I'm not positive about that.
My layout is in the upper Midwest, not a large city. While slaughterhouses in NYC would deliver or ship locally, my little town would more likely ship the meat products out of town. Oh, and don't tell anyone that I squeezed the whole slaughterhouse scene into a small space, and there is no road access to the building at all.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Basil Heyden Kentuckey Bourbon / straight up
There are a few Livestock Cars in my fleet, mainly for variety. I also have a Meat Reefer or two.
However, I have never modeled a cattle pen, meat packing plant, slaughterhouse, or anything else like that. They don't fit into my fantasy world.
All the cattle cars run empty on my layout.
I prefer to model my cows just happily hanging out on the green grass and enjoying the day. The only thing they need to worry about are natural predators.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
At +- $60.00 I highly recommend Red Breast Single Malt Irish Whisky, smooth as silk, and i have tried them all including Middelton Reserve at $300 per bottle, Bayway Terminal NJ
Have you tried Allagash White from Portland Maine, Bayway Terminal NJ
No stock cars on my layout, but while train watching, you will find a bit of Crown Royal Black, or perhaps J Henry bourbon, or maybe some Buffalo Trace bourbon.
While living in Iowa as kid, the owner of the farm my step dad worked, leased a lot land for soybeans and corn. One the farms he leased, there were 2 old stock cars, sitting on concrete slabs, that were used as corn cribs.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Mike.
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SeeYou190
I see that you model the reptile-to-mammal transition era!
John-NYBWMy fictional railroad is based loosely on the NYOW and in the first half of the 20th century they carried quite a few Jewish passengers to the Catskills
You mean the Kaatskills, otherwise known as the "Jewish Alps". There were Jewish owned resorts that kept kosher and had services on Saturdays. And a tremendous number of Hollywood stars of the Golden Age got their start as vaudeville performers on stage in the "Borscht Belt"
"Borscht Belt humor refers to the rapid-fire, often self-deprecating style common to many of these performers and writers. Typical themes include:
Borscht Belt - Wikipedia
If I remember correctly, the O&W would lease CNJ commuter coaches that would otherwise be sitting idle for the weekend to handle the multitudes on Summer Friday and Sunday nights.
Oy vey!
Whoops. Double Post.
SeeYou190 The only thing they need to worry about are natural predators.
Shock ControlI see that you model the reptile-to-mammal transition era!
If any of you ever visit me at my house, don't expect too much. The most expensive thing I can give you to drink is Busch Light.
York1 John
I have a small fleet of stock cars, four of which are models that were assembled beautifully in the early 1950s (not by me in case you were wondering). They required a few repairs (who doesn't when you get to 70 years old?) but now they look and run beautifully.
I will have a small stock yard, but the cattle will be quite safe because there won't be a meat packing plant on the layout. The cattle will be picked up from the stockyard, make a few laps around the oval layout, and then be brought back to the pens for water and feeding. Since the cattle are plastic they won't grow old or have hoof problems. They will remain healthy forever. I don't have space for a pasture so that is as humane as I can get.
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!