Re: [CBQ] Stock Cars on the C&I

[rksmes@q.com]

List- I worked at the large Armour packing house in South St. Paul in 1952.  It was next to a huge stockyard and a large Swift packing house.  Both shipped-out beef, pork, lamb and other finished products like bacon, sausage (many varities) and by-products.  There were also two adjacent smaller packing houses.  Remember that there is the big Hormel plant in Austin, MN and a number of plants that also have also been closed in Minnesota and Iowa.
This causes me to think that very few animals were shipped from Mpls/St. Paul to Illinois.
Bob S

----- Original Message -----
From: rgortowski@aol.com
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sat, 26 Nov 2011 22:31:01 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [CBQ] Stock Cars on the C&I

List,



I'm modeling 1950, and I'm wondering if you would see live cattle inbound from Minneapolis/St. Paul heading east to Chicago?  Also, would you see NP or GN stock cars heading east on the C&I?  I could certainly see empties heading west to get them back to the home roads.



Also meat related - the Swift plant in Rochelle received live beef/hogs from where?



I appreciate any answers I can get.



Rich G.

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