While exploring the murals from the South Omaha Mural project I stumbled upon this view of the Union Stockyard and the remaining Livestock Exchange building.

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Aerial shot, near Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport

Oklahoma City

Komatsu excavator with ram bar pushing over the brick walls of the old Kansas City stockyards powerplant.

Located in the former Union Stockyards

The Fort Worth Stockyards is a historic district that is located in Fort Worth, Texas, north of the central business district. The 98-acre district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Fort Worth Stockyards Historic District in 1976.

"Suggan Buggan is a ghost town in the remote wilderness of northeastern Gippsland in Victoria, Australia. There were no people counted for the 2016 census. Suggan Buggan is surrounded by the Alpine National Park."

This is an old picture taken at Stockyards, Fortworth.

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Taken at the Fort Worth Historic Stockyards, Fort Worth, Texas.

Wire coils in the stockyard of John Pring & Son Ltd at Elworth, Sandbach, Cheshire. Sadly all now gone and demolished after the firm went into receivership in 2009.

Hindus famously regard cows as sacred. So do the Texans of Fort Worth - the original Cowtown - but for entirely different reasons. This is one of several shops in the Stockyards district selling Cowphernalia. (A word I have happily invented.)

Fort Worth Stockyards, Fort Worth,TX

Visit this location at The Stockyard for Breeding and Milking in Second Life

Harry Daniel has several stockyards on his N scale Santa Fe layout. I have never seen a good kit for a stockyard in N scale, so scratchbuilding is required. Compare this with the HO stockyard on Steve Sandifer's Santa Fe layout: www.flickr.com/photos/13893317@N06/8194609785/in/set-7215... .

The rail line from Eureka to Moline, Kansas runs through the village of Climax. Shown here is the stockyard. No livestock of the reptilian persuasion are kept here.

These photos are on Steve Sandifer's HO scale layout. All his finished structures and scenery are superb. He models a Santa Fe branchline in central Kansas circa 1952. I photographed his layout on the 2014 Fall Layout Tour.

This concludes my 2014 photos of Steve's layout.

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.

Acting a fool.

Stockyards museum entrance.

While waiting for a flight to Denver I had a few hours to kill so I decided to hang out at the OK City Stockyards, have a steak and take a few pictures...these are a sample...

Niki...West Australia

This is one of the reasons for visiting Steve Sandifer's HO scale layout. One of his areas of expertise is Santa Fe stockyards and cattle operations. See: www.atsfrr.net/resources/Sandifer/Clinics/Stk/Index.htm . A modeler cannot go buy a correct stockyard kit in N scale, so if I want one, I'll have to scratchbuild one. Cattle were still shipped by rail on the Santa Fe until 1972. Since I have early childhood memories of cattle cars and stockyards, I must build one. Steve answered my questions that were not clear on the plans that I have. Will I have the patience to actually build one? We'll see.

This is one of several stockyards on Steve Sandifer's HO scale layout. All his finished structures and scenery are superb. He models a Santa Fe branchline in central Kansas circa 1952. I photograhed his layout on the 2011 Fall Layout Tour but didn't ask his permission to post these until this year. Over the next few days, I'll post more 2011 photos of his layout and then some from 2012.

Notes to myself and interested modelers: the top 2 boards of the fence are 1" x 6" lumber, the bottom 4 boards are 2" x 8" lumber, and the posts are 8" in diameter that rise 6' above ground. This is a standard Santa Fe Stockyard #1 65' 4" x 65' 4."

Here on the rolling hills of Kansas you can see cattle grazing, an oil loading platform, a stockyard, and a small town yard for Moline Kansas. This rural scene is on Steve Sandifer's HO scale layout. All his finished structures and scenery are superb. He models a Santa Fe branchline in central Kansas circa 1952. I photograhed his layout on the 2011 Fall Layout Tour but didn't ask his permission to post these until this year. Over the next few days, I'll post more 2011 photos of his layout and then some from 2012.

I find this neighborhood a great place to kill time waiting for flights out of Will Rogers airport, Oklahoma City. Biggest western store I’ve ever been in, I even bought a western shirt with snaps in place of buttons.

Fort Worth, TX

Fort Worth Stockyards

The station is located north of the intersection of S. Packers Ave. and W. 40th St. Architectural writer Ley Bey recently wrote about the building on his WBEZ blog: www.wbez.org/blog/lee-bey/2012-03-26/vacant-fire-house-am...

NOTE: The Engine 53 house was demolished in February 2019.

Fort Worth Stockyards

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Waterhole Hut, Grassy Creek, Namadgi National Park, A.C.T.

9 March 2008, Chicago, Illinois.

The 30th Annual South Side Irish Parade

The Chicago Stockyard Kilty Band assembles at 103rd St and Westeran Ave in order to lead of the South Side Irish Parade for the 30th consectuvie time.

The temperatures within 30 degrees, snow and over cast skies id not deter the band nor the parade spectators.

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Old stockyards in the Gawler Ranges at dusk.

View on black

Mostly forgotten, a little bit of light painting, but all of it was really fun to explore (includes Sherman, Decatur, Fort Worth, DFW, and Grapevine - all but two are Texas).

Benched in Chicago

There was a long line of Cars containing "Ediable Beef Tallow" waiting to be picked up next to this processing plant in the Chicago Stockyards. For the non-Chicago viewers This is the area from Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle"

Stockyards Station

Fort Worth Stockyards