Meat packing plant I once built the first two photos show the old ice platform being smashed down for tallow loading traffic! Roo.
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I remember the meat packing plant, specifically the ramp to the top floor. John in Lansing, ILL
Fantastic Roo !!!
Roo,
Take a look at the web address on google, "History of meat packing in Sioux City, IA". At one time, we had one of the largest cattle markets in the country and even were the Number 1 hog market in the US. Tyson Foods and a hog plant that can kill 20,000 hogs in 2 shifts.
Dick
20,000 hogs? That's a lot of Scrapple 
Really great modeling, Roo!
FWIW it is beyond me why anyone would want to model a slaughterhouse as part of their modelling endeavours, places of absolute misery. Surely there are more creative and inspirational 'industries' and suchlike to replicate in 1:48.
opinion only.
That Brooklyn layout was impressive.
I want to model one, as a load carrier/originator destination common in the part of the world l model, and a port for a stock car fleet. Would like Menard's to gin one out, if period in design, but may never happen, so future scratch or kit. Hospitals and funeral homes are not pleasant, l try to stay out of them, but l like to eat. I am not herbivorous.
Limey posted:FWIW it is beyond me why anyone would want to model a slaughterhouse as part of their modelling endeavours, places of absolute misery. Surely there are more creative and inspirational 'industries' and suchlike to replicate in 1:48.
opinion only.
I respect your opinion we live in free countries.
I try to keep emotional and political subjects out of my hobbies but I'm a realist these things happen in real life I model army bases and I was a combat soldier in a war and saw some nasty things my great uncles were farmers in remote areas where death was a way of life.
My modelling is always based on the Railroad side of things and there were many sidings associated with meat packing plants or abattoirs as we call them in Australia.
I model the industries of what I see in real life that I think have an interesting railroad connection nothing more nothing less. Roo.
Farmer_Bill posted:20,000 hogs? That's a lot of Scrapple
Really great modeling, Roo!
Lotta smell. Not so anymore. The standard joke, especially during the long, hot, humid summers, was as the stockyards started to stink, we all used to say, "Smell the money."
Dick
