Overview of N scale Santa Fe stockyard
This is one of several small stockyards on Harry Daniel's layout. I've already shown a large cattle unloading stockyard complex that connect to a feedlot and slaughterhouse. The stockyard shown above is where ranchers either deliver their cattle to the railhead by truck or by a short distance cattle drive along a country road. Here the cattle are loaded into pens, fed and watered until they are loaded into stockcars. The movement of cattle by rail was still a big business during the 1950's but declined in the 60's. Santa Fe shipped their last carload of cattle in 1972, but I saw plenty of small town stockyards and stockcars when I was growing up.
I visited Harry Daniel's N scale Pecos River Railroad on Sunday 20 November as part of the Houston area 2011 model railroad layout tour. His Santa Fe theme layout is 12' x 19' shaped like a big E with three peninsulas, two viewing aisles, and is triple level connected by helixes.
Overview of N scale Santa Fe stockyard
This is one of several small stockyards on Harry Daniel's layout. I've already shown a large cattle unloading stockyard complex that connect to a feedlot and slaughterhouse. The stockyard shown above is where ranchers either deliver their cattle to the railhead by truck or by a short distance cattle drive along a country road. Here the cattle are loaded into pens, fed and watered until they are loaded into stockcars. The movement of cattle by rail was still a big business during the 1950's but declined in the 60's. Santa Fe shipped their last carload of cattle in 1972, but I saw plenty of small town stockyards and stockcars when I was growing up.
I visited Harry Daniel's N scale Pecos River Railroad on Sunday 20 November as part of the Houston area 2011 model railroad layout tour. His Santa Fe theme layout is 12' x 19' shaped like a big E with three peninsulas, two viewing aisles, and is triple level connected by helixes.