[CBQ] Tanking

["Rupert Gamlen" <gamlenz@hotmail.com>]

A couple of days ago, there was a post-July 1969 photo on eBay of CB&Q 24490, a 50 foot XM-33C built at Havelock in 1957. The car bore a large orange patch label stating “Tankage loading only” and “When empty return to agent CB&Q at xxxxx Junction”.

I understand tankage was a fertilizer or animal feed obtained from the residue from tanks in which animal carcasses have been rendered, but was it dried or still a liquid, and how was it transported?

Thanks

Rupert Gamlen
Auckland NZ

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