Kelly below is some history of the Sioux City Dressed Beef company, prepared
by John Greedy. The Q did serve Sioux City, via a line up from Omaha. Here
is some information about CBQ meat trains that left Sioux City each day.
Train # Depart Time Destination
94 11:00 pm Lincoln, Ne
96 6:00 pm Kansas City
As to the cars you purchased, both Athearn and Walthers have done the
Needham/Sioux City Dressed beef paint scheme. I believe the paint/lettering
is accurate, but never car/model is an accurate meat reefer. The Athearn is
their standard produce reefer. The Walther's model is a 40' General American
Reefer, which they claim is a meat reefer, but it has produce reefer
details. It is not a meat reefer model.
Doug Harding
www.iowacentralrr.org
Needham Packing History
Sioux City Dressed Beef, Inc. was established 1954 in Sioux City, Iowa.
Original car supply was MDT, SUCX, URTX and NX. Lloyd Needham was the
General Manager. In 1960, Lloyd Needham bought out the original investors
and reincorporated as Sioux City Dressed Beef Company division of Needham
Packing Company. Car supply continued as before with revisions to the SCDB
logo. The logo now was encircled with "Flavorland Meats". Needham Packing
was trying to establish a brand identity for its dressed beef products.
Meanwhile, the former investors were establishing a pork processor – Sioux
City Dressed Pork which today is a major John Morrell pork processing plant
and another dressed beef processor – Superior Packing of Laverne, Minnesota;
later known as M.I.D. Packing and finally IBP.
Needham Packing expanded to include:
1. Siouxland Dressed Beef division of Needham Packing Company was built new
in West Fargo, ND in 1960. By the way, Armour & Company had just closed its
West Fargo plant in 1959.
2. Sioux Beef division of Needham Packing Company, Omaha, Nebraska
3. Montana Packing Company, Great Falls, Montana
4. Western packing Company, Toppenish and Seattle, Washington.
As I recall, some of the car supply to the West Fargo plant was WFEX plug
door cars modified with meat rails and new reporting marks LLNX 45xx.
Original paint and lettering was boxcar red ends, aluminum
roof, yellow/orange sides' full Western Fruit Express, LLNX on left side and
Siouxland Dressed Beef division of Needham Packing Company with
"SCDB-Flavorland Meats" logo on right side. In 1964 Needham packing adopted
a new paint scheme and logo. The logo was a stylized red "N" incorporating a
black beef face all on a black band across the car side. Early on it appears
as though the car supply was color coded to location:
Sioux City cars were deep blue and yellow (URTX) and deep blue (MNX, WCLX,
SUCX)
West Fargo cars were olive green and deep blue (LLNX, MNX)
Omaha cars were deep blue
Great Falls and Western Packing cars??????
Needham Packing sold its interest in SCDB and SLDB to Flavorland Industries
in 1973. Today, Needham is a specialty beef processor located in Omaha,
Nebraska.
The West Fargo Flavorland Industries plant was sold to Fargo Beef Industries
in 1978. The name was changed to Held Beef Industries in 1980; and sold
again to Federal Beef Processors in 1987. Federal
Beef ceased operations and closed in 1999.
John Greedy
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