Meat Processing

Pennsylvania ranks among the top 10 states for slaughter in commercial plants for all major categories of livestock.

Pennsylvania ranks second in the nation in the number of small meat processors and has more than 400 federally inspected meat and poultry processors. With over half of the U.S. population located within 300 miles of eastern Pennsylvania, there are many opportunities to grow and expand the meat and poultry processing industry. Because many consumers in the state’s metropolitan areas are following the national trend toward buying fresh, locally produced products, Pennsylvania has nine counties listed in the top 100 nationwide that generate direct sales of farm products for human consumption, according to the 2002 U.S. Census of Agriculture.

We model a meat packing plant in Scranton:

A 100+ year meat packing business in Lancaster:

There is another meat processing plant in Reading:

Beside delivery to major stops on the Keystone Division mainline, meat products are exported via refrigerated warehouses and containers at the Philadelphia Container Port: Pennsylvania meat products are distributed to Ohio and places west via the Cleveland interchanges and to New York and New England via the Buffalo Interchange.