Livestock loading during Summer heat

Tue Jul 21 09:42:38 EDT 2020

Bill,

Thank you for sharing your memories!  I am curious regarding the cars used
to transport pigs, vs. cattle.  Were they the same single level variety?  I
have seen a few photos of what appear to be two level cars.

Vic Chudoba

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Bill

Your memory is correct, but those belonged, if I recall the name correctly
to the Roanoke Livestock Association, where they had sales weekly. They
burned some years back, the gas pump you described was indeed there, very
late as I recall, and only finally had the glass broken as late as about
1980. My grandfather bought and sold stock there. One of the things I have
is a walking cane marked for them.

They were on the SW corner of 25th Street and Johnson Avenue, now a parking
lot for CMC Supply.

The N&W Stock pens were, I believe originally located west of Shaffers in
the yard, the number of pens were reduced over time. 

Ken Miller 

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This post jogged my memory, especially the reference to the "Boyce Livestock
Pens."  I was a very young boy in the 1960s.  I have a vague recollection of
a large, wooden livestock pen adjacent to Schaffers Crossing, between what
would now be 24th and 25th Streets.  I also remember one of those old-time
manual gasoline pumps at its street entrance.  The gasoline pump was long
and tall with a large graduated sight glass at the top where the gasoline
was hand pumped to determine the quantity before it was gravity-fed to a
vehicle. 

Are my childhood recollections correct?  Or am I all wet?

Bill King

Arlington, Virginia

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Subject: Livestock loading during Summer heat

Attached is an order regarding livestock loading during Summer months.  I
recall that during my Operations Training program I visited the Roanoke
clean-out track at which boxcar dunnage and debris was removed.  1974 was
well after the livestock era but I am wondering if during earlier years
stock cars were taken there and the bedding was swept out, or if this was a
responsibility of the local agent when a car was set at a loading location.
I suppose a livestock consignor would not have bothered to remove used
bedding, thinking that it saved them from having to clean the car and
provide new straw.  So, who and how were the stock cars cleaned?

Separately, I have not been able to determine when the Boyce livestock pens
were retired and the spur removed.  If there is an information source, I
will welcome that date.

Good morning,

Frank Scheer

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