The Sleepy Hollow Dairy

Model Railroader Layouts and layout building
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A couple of months ago someone here made queries about modeling a dairy. At about this time, I passed by a dairy not too far from me and intended to take some photos. Unfortunately, my camera’s battery was dead.

Well, today I passed by the dairy when returning from the town of Occidental (town was on the long-abandoned route of the 3-foot-gauge North Pacific Coast RR.) after having eaten a large Italian, family-style dinner for lunch (6 courses not counting the bread) for 20 bucks, and this time the camera was working.

The dairy is on Lakeview Road in southern Sonoma County, California. These pictures were taken from the road, shown from south to north:

(See, I wasn’t kidding about the dairy’s name.)

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Mine was a lot smaller than that. Most around here are too small to have their own processing plant. Had to give it up as price of milk was the same as in the '60’s, but the prices for what had to be bought was at 2010 prices. Grain up from $60/ton to $400/ton, fuel (you know what that’s done), other needs have had similar or higher price increases. Miss the critters, but not the hours (sole operator). Now I have time to more than think of trains, even spend some time doing.

Nice to see a small operation like that, I wish them well.

Thanks for sharing.