Re: [CBQ] CB&Q STOCK YARDS

["Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>]

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Going back far enough there were stock pens at just about any depot in areas where cattle were raised for beef.

I don’t know the distinction between “stock yards” and stock pens but I when I think of “stock yards” it is a place where the cattle are better off not being aware of the next step in their journey.

Leo gives some additional insight into the Montgomery yard being a distribution point for sales to local farms for breeding stock and likely milk cows which I suppose could happen at any stock pen.

Naperville and probably other towns such as Downers Grove once had stock pens (and grain elevators!!); haven’t researched deep enough to know if they were railroad owned  or not at this point.  It is hard to grasp how agricultural the East End was up until relatively modern times!!!

Charlie Vlk

 

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Steve Holding can explain better,but it’s my understanding feeder cattle were bought and sold to area farms from Montgomery in addition to in transit feed, water and exercise.

The Bulletin on livestock has a copy of a system stock yard listing. Almost any station of any size had a yard.

 

In my research I have found the Batavia,IL stock yard shipping cattle to Chicago in the 1930s. 

The Aurora night switch engine would be sent there for the once a week shipments. Lots of time slips flew as this was road crew work. In the end the Supt won with his declines showing this had been ongoing for decades w/o time slips.

 

Leo Phillipp 

On Oct 3, 2020, at 11:22 AM, Charlie Vlk <cvlk@comcast.net> wrote:





Tom

Depends what you mean by “Chicago area” and what era.

I haven’t researched where the first yard was in the 1850s but the C&NW and CB&Q started to build a combined yard at Western Avenue but quickly abandoned building it and sold the materials to and participated in in the Chicago Union Stock Yards instead.

The “Sheep Yard’ at Montgomery AFAIK handled cows and other livestock and Clyde had small pens as well but they were in-transit facilities and not destination yards.

Charlie Vlk

On Oct 3, 2020, at 10:16 AM, Tom Hammer <hammermann1911@outlook.com> wrote:

I am wanting to know, where in the Chicago area did the Q have a stock Yards?

Tom Hammer

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