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[CBQ] Re: Montgomery Sheepyard Questions

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Subject: [CBQ] Re: Montgomery Sheepyard Questions
From: "o_rrman" <mofferman@ameritech.net>
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 06:22:07 -0000
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Thanks for your help Steve.  

Mike

--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, STEVEN HOLDING <sholding@...> wrote:
>
> When I worked there from 67-69 there was one track on the north dock with 
> 18-20 
> chute pens for unloading livestock into both Cattle and Sheep.  There was 
> also a 
> south Dock and chute track  but was leased out to Henry Steele.  The south 
> barn 
> labled Sheep Barn on Page 28 had just been torn down.  All barns west of Ill 
> Rt. 
> 31 were gone.  As were the Barn and Horse Barn on Page 28
> On page 29(BB 25) both the barns to the north labeled Sheep  Barn and Cattle 
> Barn were used for Cattle with Wertheimer Cattle Co. using the all the west 
> and 
> half the east barns.  They sold and also fed cattle there.  The New Sheep 
> Barn 
> was leased by Moiner Sheep Co for feeding out sheep which would then go to 
> Chicago for slaughter.  The square just north of the sheep barn was the scale 
> and most of the area labeled feed lot  just open pens.  Wertheimer unloaded 
> all 
> their own cattle.  Henry Steele only sold Prime A1 cattle looked like 4H 
> material.  
> 
> I worked Sat and Sun all thru High School and any extra work after school or 
> vacations.  First thing I did every morning was call the Chief Dispatcher and 
> find out if any stock were coming.  If not I would move hay from the barn 
> into 
> the east cattle barn with the Co. Dump truck(that is where I learned to drive 
> a 
> stick shift jockeying around to get lined up to drive thru the alley.  No 
> gates 
> lined up with the alley.  On days when we did get stock the first thing to do 
> was go out and get the pens ready by opening the water trough(a length of 
> pipe 
> was the plug and allowed any overflow to go down a drain) and open the bales 
> of 
> hay for feed.  The stock  would be unloaded into the chute pens a car to each 
> pen.  Then they would be moved down the alley to the scale, Weighted and 
> moved 
> to a pen.  Sheep were fed alfalfa pellets and corn while cows got plain hay.  
> Next you took the scale tickets back to the office and glued them to the 
> waybills for the agent when he came in.
> Some stock was still moved in '73 when I was working at Aurora Tower and I 
> had 
> the train set them out in the depot as he was too long to fit and set them 
> out 
> on the sheep yard lead.  The Aurora Passenger Depot engine then just came 
> right 
> in on them and shoved them down to the stockyard.
> Steve in SC
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> From: o_rrman <mofferman@...>
> To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Thu, November 3, 2011 11:53:34 AM
> Subject: [CBQ] Montgomery Sheepyard Questions
> 
>   
> A few topics relating :
> Stockpen Layout:
> I was wondering if anyone has a diagram showing how the loading docks, ramps, 
> stockpens and alleys were laid out at Montgomery?  I have BB25 which shows 
> general layout of the buildings but not the fencing. 
> 
> 
> Chute tracks: 
> Were there separate tracks for north/south chutes or one track with north and 
> south leads to the yard? Did these tracks run to the west of the elevator? 
> 
> 
> Current Tracks:
> Finally, looking at bing maps birdseye views (http://www.bing.com/maps), are 
> the 
> current tracks running into the lumber treatment plant from the south and 
> north 
> the old Chute tracks?  The one from the South runs adjacent to the east side 
> of 
> the elevator so I'm guessing that it used to run into the old lean-to?  If 
> so, 
> did it used to continue through the lean to the chutes or did it stop there?  
> In 
> any case, could someone tell me whether the current tracks are remnants of 
> old 
> ones or do they post-date the sheepyard? 
> 
> 
> Thanks for any help. Sorry for the number of questions but I figure it will 
> give 
> Steve or Leo something to do! :-)
> 
> Mike O 
> 
> 
>  
> 
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>




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