Hi:
One of our club members is developing a stockyard operation on his modules. Another has an operating, read “action accessory”, stockyard on his module. I have recently decided to expand my trailing siding, with its barrel loading operation, by adding a "6-inch" deep backdrop. This backdrop will have several industrial and warehouse fronts on it that will expand my siding into a small industrial area. One of these “fronts” is to be a meat packing house. I just spent the last hour & a half cruising the web and haven't been able to find any good data on the general layout of one of these operations.
I assume, and we all know what Felix Unger had to say about that, I will need a cattle offloading ramp and pen, then a suitable old building into which the cattle are taken. Then I’ll need a loading dock to send the “beef” on its way. Am thinking that one of the other buildings could be an icing station, another a refrigeration plant. And then another “cool” building/warehouse that’s there just because the refrigeration system is available.
Another thought, is to have the cattle cars and refrigerated packing cars back into the buildings, so I could change out the cattle and put in the “cargo”. Could also mount my operating cattle yard as the unloading pen and actually unload the cattle from the cars.
Does anyone know of a site where I can some info/pictures of typical meat packing operations? P.S. something a little smaller that “IBP” would be useful.
Thanks,
Ted
One of our club members is developing a stockyard operation on his modules. Another has an operating, read “action accessory”, stockyard on his module. I have recently decided to expand my trailing siding, with its barrel loading operation, by adding a "6-inch" deep backdrop. This backdrop will have several industrial and warehouse fronts on it that will expand my siding into a small industrial area. One of these “fronts” is to be a meat packing house. I just spent the last hour & a half cruising the web and haven't been able to find any good data on the general layout of one of these operations.
I assume, and we all know what Felix Unger had to say about that, I will need a cattle offloading ramp and pen, then a suitable old building into which the cattle are taken. Then I’ll need a loading dock to send the “beef” on its way. Am thinking that one of the other buildings could be an icing station, another a refrigeration plant. And then another “cool” building/warehouse that’s there just because the refrigeration system is available.
Another thought, is to have the cattle cars and refrigerated packing cars back into the buildings, so I could change out the cattle and put in the “cargo”. Could also mount my operating cattle yard as the unloading pen and actually unload the cattle from the cars.
Does anyone know of a site where I can some info/pictures of typical meat packing operations? P.S. something a little smaller that “IBP” would be useful.
Thanks,
Ted