Livestock loading during Summer heat

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Bill
Your memory is correct, but those belonged, if I recall the name correctly to the Roanoke Livestock Association, where they had sales weekly. They burned some years back, the gas pump you described was indeed there, very late as I recall, and only finally had the glass broken as late as about 1980. My grandfather bought and sold stock there. One of the things I have is a walking cane marked for them.

They were on the SW corner of 25th Street and Johnson Avenue, now a parking lot for CMC Supply.

The N&W Stock pens were, I believe originally located west of Shaffers in the yard, the number of pens were reduced over time. 

Ken Miller 
 


> On Jul 20, 2020, at 10:58 AM, NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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> This post jogged my memory, especially the reference to the "Boyce Livestock Pens."  I was a very young boy in the 1960s.  I have a vague recollection of a large, wooden livestock pen adjacent to Schaffers Crossing, between what would now be 24th and 25th Streets.  I also remember one of those old-time manual gasoline pumps at its street entrance.  The gasoline pump was long and tall with a large graduated sight glass at the top where the gasoline was hand pumped to determine the quantity before it was gravity-fed to a vehicle.
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> Are my childhood recollections correct?  Or am I all wet?
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> Bill King
> Arlington, Virginia
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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?
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> 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.
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> Frank Scheer
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