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There are numerous references in the Aurora Div. trainman’s Union files concerning road crews delivering directly to Chicago Union stockyards. If you have a copy of the trainman’s work agreement booklet there are references as to how they will be paid for running directly to the yards with their stock cars. Of course all this activity faded quickly in the 20th century as trucks took over the vast majority of the stock business.
Of course if the road crew didn’t have enough time left under the “hog law”(hours of service rules a yard crew would take the stock to Union stock yard.
Also unless my memory is totally wrong I’ve read in at least two sources that is was a CB&Q train that made the first delivery to the yards when they opened. The Q was actually in the process Of building its own Chicago stock yards when the carriers agreed to build Union stock yard. Leo Phillipp On Mar 11, 2023, at 12:09 PM, ted schnepf <railsunlimited2@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello Bill and list, I would like to address the second part of Bills comment, about the CBQ only serving Denver stockyards directly. I believe in Chicago that Burlington trains would directly deliver their loaded stock cars to the union stockyard.
I know Milwaukee road stock trains did run directly into the Chicago
Union stockyards. I would imagine there was some trackage rights
arrangement that allowed the trains to directly deliver loaded stock to
the yards. I would assume all of the other Chicago railroads could also
deliver their stock directly to the yards. I have dispatcher sheets
that show Sunday afternoons with many stock trains coming into Chicago
on the Milwaukee road and then with a mainline crew change in
bensenville running directly into the Chicago Union stock yards.
While the main line railroads delivered their stock trains directly to
the stockyards, the local terminal railroad may have switched the stock
cars to the unloading ramps. I would assume there were other
arrangements in places like Sioux City, Omaha and Kansas City stockyards
for other direct delivery of stock trains. Ted
Ted Schnepf Elgin, Illinois 847-697-5353 Bill Hirt commented on the Real Steam Era Freight Car Discussion group:
"Andrews trucks were reused under new PRR open hoppers built in 1961. These cars continued into the PC merger.
The CB&Q used Andrews sideframes to replace soon to be banned Arch Bar trucks circa 1938 on a number of cars according to CB&Q car diagrams. The advantage being that the Andrews side frames could use the Arch Bar truck's journal boxes. The cars that received these changes kept them until retirement.
Of the major middle of the country stockyards, the CB&Q only served the Denver Union stockyards directly. The rest of the major stockyards required interchange. So a CB&Q stock car was allowed in interchange with these Andrews trucks past the end of this list's date."
Bob Chaparro
Hemet, CA
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