Model Railroading > All in a days work, on theTexas & Gulf

The switching is 24/7 on the Texas & Gulf, as evidenced on this Sunday as workhouse 4-4-0 #412 goes about her chores :

After pulling loaded stock cars out of the spur, here 412 is spotting empty stock cars at the lineside pen

Spotting those loaded stock cars at pens within the packing plant

Grabbing more loaded stock cars for spotting - the consumer in 1953 has a endless demand for beef 
 

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Reefers get spotted at the refrigerated rendering plant

Ranchers need fertilizer to grow corn to keep the animals fed, and 412 fetches a couple bottles

The FredoniaProduce shed is serviced,  as 412 is caught here removing an empty Katy boxcar



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/13/19 14:27 by WrongWayMurphy.

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The newest lineside customer on the T&G is Lone Star Feed & Fertilizer, and 412 is spotting an empty boxcar for bagged feed.

Cement is another hot commodity, as 6 empty covered hoppers get removed from the bulk plant.  Yea, probably not right for '53, but ... whatever

The Light Crust Flour mill gets worked over by 412 with these boxcars being sent to the car cleaner for future loading

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Lastly, a special move to spot this depressed flat with load on the team track, exactly at the time specified by the switch list. 
Why the customer is not here to meet us at the appointed time is beyond me.

The above on my HO scale Texas & Gulf pike in Tyler, Tex.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/13/19 14:37 by WrongWayMurphy.

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Is this a new addition to the roster Shane.Dont think I have seen pics of it before.Nice to see the cattle have a nice covered walkway to get to the ''end of the road''.
Regards,dK

Love that kind of switching. Meat Packing plants had a lot more than cattle in and reefers of meat out. They also shipped out tankcars of tallow and boxcars of bagged bonemeal. Here are a couple images of the Armour Packing Plant in Spokane, WA. You can see the tallow tankcars all over, and the pile at right is bonemeal that local famers will come and haul away as fertilizer. In fact there is a truck leaving with bone meal hiding behind the tell-tale framework.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone_meal

Ted Curphey
Ontario, OR

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Looks real good, WWM.

Like all the demand at the stock pens and meat packing plant - and 1953 was before all the fast food hamburger joints!

Very interesting special cargo on depressed center flatcar.  Don't see much of that anywhere.

Respectively
DMac
 

Danny McLean
Center, TX

That Armor plant looked like the one in Ft Worth including the large walk way for cows to walk  up  to their death.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/13/19 21:37 by tomstp.