Darling International cars

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Junctionfan

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From: St.Catharines, Ontario
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Posted by Junctionfan on Wednesday, October 20, 2004 5:16 PM

Cool, thankyou for the information.

Andrew

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CShaveRR

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From: Lombard (west of Chicago), Illinois
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Posted by CShaveRR on Wednesday, October 20, 2004 3:54 PM

Here's a good, specific website that should answer your questions:

http://www.darlingii.com/finished/finished.htm

The tallow is transported in the tank cars, the bone meal in the covered hoppers.

By the way, this past week I saw one of the covered hoppers (NDYX 516300 series) with the Darling markings painted out--that lease could have been terminated.

Tank cars are mostly UTLX, but there are some ACFX/SHPX, GATX, and NATX cars as well. As far as I know, all are used for tallow, none for more refined products.

Carl

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Junctionfan

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February 2004
From: St.Catharines, Ontario
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Darling International cars

Posted by Junctionfan on Wednesday, October 20, 2004 12:27 PM

Hello everybody

Which industries takes the 54 foot funnel flow tankers of inedible tallow and the covered hoppers that both belong to Darling? What is inside the covered hoppers that is different from what is inside the tankers?

Andrew