In January of 1943 Jack Delano made his way to the Calumet Park stockyards in Calumet City, Illinois. There he found workers busily loading stock cars that day. In the photograph below steers are being loaded into a Missouri Pacific car. It seems that one of the beasts is wise to what’s going on, and has decided she isn’t going to have any part of it!

And here is a group of sheep being loaded into the upper deck of a Burlington stock car. They all appear to be compliant, even giving the worker wide berth.

These stockyards are operated by the Indiana Harbor Belt railroad.