Re: [CBQ] Tanking

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

Thanks for these replies and explanations. The ORER’s in 1969 and 1970 listed about 300 cars for hide and tankage loading, including 24490.

Rupert Gamlen
Auckland NZ

 

From: CBQ@groups.io <CBQ@groups.io> On Behalf Of John Mitchell via Groups.Io
Sent: Saturday, 1 December 2018 6:49 p.m.
To: CBQ@groups.io
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Tanking

 

It was dry and in 100 pound sacks. My father-in-law and I unloaded a boxcar load at Herrin Junction, in about 1973. Before we were done, it started to rain and some of the sacks were broken open. It was an unholy mess and we ended up throwing our clothes away. We stripped down in the back yard because my wife wouldn't let us in the house, and it DID stink!

 

On Friday, November 30, 2018 10:22 PM, Nolen Null via Groups.Io <NNull=aol.com@groups.io> wrote:

 

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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