Glasgow Livestock Sales

Memories for you cattle and maybe pork producers that market at Glasgow Livestock Sales. Do you as producers, or more likely the outside staff of workers at the sales yard, remember when cattle were loaded directly into railroad stock cars for shipment?

This may have been a year-round procedure but was definitely used in the fall of the year. I do not remember, nor was I ever involved in that process, but did cattle spend the night on board before departure time? Yes, I do remember the placing of hay bales in the cars, so I am sure they didn’t go hungry. There must have been cattle trucks at the time also, but the railroad was used for a lot of cattle transportation.

I do remember a few stories from the past of individuals that used railroad cars for shipping, which I plan to share another week.