Livestock loading during Summer heat

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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
f_scheer at yahoo.com
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