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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