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Re: [CBQ] Livestock Pens at Oregon, IL

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Subject: Re: [CBQ] Livestock Pens at Oregon, IL
From: STEVEN HOLDING <sholding@sbcglobal.net>
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 09:49:41 -0800 (PST)
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Dave
In the movement of livestock I would bet Oregon only had one chute to 
load/unload into the six pens.  

Feeder calves (18 months old) would move in from the open ranges out west 
during 
the fall to clean up crop lands.  These would then move back out in the spring 
or when finished to market.  When did Swift open the plant in Rochelle?  This 
was a beef slaughter house similiar to the Hog Plant in Monmouth ran by Wilson 
in the 80's(they had a couple old reefers used for storage)
Finished livestock would have moved from Oregon to Chicago markets.  Oregon had 
the Carnation plant so there was dairy in the area with the bull calves fed out 
for beef along with the imported beef feeders.  

Feeder lambs would move in a similar time frame with a lot finished for the 
spring(easter)Market times and again moved to Chicago markets.  

The track being 10 cars long would have been used for storage if no stock cars 
were on it for loading
As for the end of movement it would depend on trucking taking over.  This is 
what killed the rail movement as the livestock would move direct from farm to 
market.  I did set some cars out in the depot at Aurora in the fall of '73 
because the train would not fit.  The switch engine was in the Hill Yard and 
came up on to the cars in the depot and shoved them down to the Stock yard in 
Montgomery.  By then they were far and few between.  A lot depends on the era 
you want to model
Steve in SC




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From: DaveS <sartherdj@aol.com>
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tue, November 30, 2010 10:47:04 PM
Subject: [CBQ] Livestock Pens at Oregon,  IL

  
I am trying to gather as much information as I can about the Livestock Pens and 
their operation at Oregon, IL.  Here is the information I have learned to date. 
 
Bulletin #25 (table on p. 34) spells out that there were six pens and the track 
adjacent to the pens had a capacity of ten cars.  The photo album section of 
the 
CB&Q Group has a photo posted by Bob Rees in the Oregon, IL album that shows a 
corner of the Livestock Pen roof (photo by Jim Purcell taken in 1947).  The 
centerpoint of that photo is not the pens but the 2-6-2 "dinky" working the 
yard 
in front of the Oregon depot. Then there is the 2003 Zephyr article about 
Oregon, IL that features a 1928 schematic drawing of the track locations, CB&Q 
facilities and industry locations switched by the local crew around Oregon, IL.

Here is what I would like to learn.  When did the livestock operation at Oregon 
begin?  When did the operation end?  What type of livestock were generally 
loaded on to cars at this location?  In general, what was the final destination 
of the loaded livestock cars?  Are there any photos that can be posted of the 
pens, unloading and trackside loading chutes and shed?

Thanks,  Dave Sarther    Tucson, AZ


 

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