Re: [CBQ] Tanking

["Nolen Null via Groups.Io" <NNull=aol.com@groups.io>]

Rupert,

Tankage was a dry product of animal rendering.  I'm not sure about how it was transported, but seem to recall having it on the farm in either burlap or paper bags.  I suspect that transporting it ranked right up there with boxcars being assigned to hide loading.  ODORIFEROUS!!  Following link explains things better than I can:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendering_(animal_products)

As I recall there was rendering plant at one time at the south end of the Galesburg yard complex that my dad used a couple of times at Waterman(where the Graham Cutoff begins).  I accompanied him with a delivery one time and recall the smell was NOT pleasant.  Hopefully some other list members can fill in details a little better.

Nolen Null

  

-----Original Message-----
From: Rupert Gamlen <gamlenz@hotmail.com>
To: CBQ@groups.io <CBQ@groups.io>
Sent: Fri, Nov 30, 2018 5:45 pm
Subject: [CBQ] Tanking

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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