Nostalgia & History > WAG Wednesday: Great Western farm animals!

It's not exactly a rodeo here but in this railfan roundup Bill Gibson did record some 'bovine' action in Kansas City a few years back. Here are a couple scenes of a CGW cow & calf set taken about 3 years apart.

1. CGW 62 cow & calf taken April 24, 1959.

2. The same set on January 22, 1962.
(2 photos taken in Kansas City, KS by William A. [Bill] Gibson Sr.)

Thanks for looking back!
Lance Garrels (santafe199)
Art Gibson (wag216)
(posted from Wilkesboro NC on the toto vacation road)



Edited 5 time(s). Last edit at 07/23/22 20:45 by santafe199.

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Bovine in more ways than one...

Both shots show this cow & calf set coupled up to reefers filled with meat (or heading back to Iowa for another load).

Love CGW photos. Post more if you've got 'em.

- Norm

Not only is that combo great, but that Swift's Premium reefer is neat to see. The Hocking Valley Scenic Ry. has one just like that in the siding at Haydenville, Oh.

Great shots, looks like a KATY hybrid in the background in two and the brakie is about to perform the time honored running for the switch routine.
JB

Nice set of shot's. Note the Swift Refrigerator Car in the 2nd shot. There is one left in Cooperstown Jct Ny. Shot one this last week there. Here is a shot of it there. Number is 25008.
Nice to see it in much "fresher" paint. Thanks for sharing. Ben

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Really liking the Bovine Action there, Lance. Just total wow. Wonderful images, both the bovines and the related cousin reefers behind them (unless they were carrying Swift's Premium pork, and if so, we can overlook that).

Thanks much for such a 'meaty' post.

MC
Columbia, Missouri



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/17/14 18:15 by ironmtn.

ironmtn Wrote:
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> Really liking the Bovine Action there, Lance. Just
> total wow. Wonderful images, both the bovines and
> the related cousin reefers behind them (unless
> they were carrying Swift's Premium pork, and if
> so, we can overlook that).
>
> Thanks much for such a 'meaty' post.
>
> MC
> Columbia, Missouri


Neat shot! There used to be a Swift reefer car at the quarry East of Rochelle, IL when I worked near there in the late 70's.

That appears to MKT 93; a normal GP7.

Brian Ehni

Here's a Stephen Foster image of MKT 93 in 1967.

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