The stock pens were in use well into the mid 1970s. I have a photo of the eastbound C&I wayfreight spotting stock at Polo that had rested at Savanna sometime in early 70s.
Toward the end stock would come in from the North, be unloaded at Savanna and trucked to Milledgeville as one example.
Leo Phillipp On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 11:26 AM, Bud Linroth wrote:
Hello Tom and group. The wood structures (pens) are the stockyards and the wood small building is a section house or a trackriders motor car house. The stock yards had a stub track running east off of the yard lead. If you had stock on the rear end, the switch engine would be in the clear on the stockyard track and would stop the train when it cleared the switch and reach out and get the way car and the stock and spot it for unloading. The stock from Galesburg came in on #89 which terminated at Savanna.
Thanks Bud and others who have responded. Does anyone know how late #89 actually brought stock to Savanna? Would the stock pens have been used in the late 1965-1970 range? -- Tom Mack Cincinnati, OH
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