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The first glass-lined tanks were built by the Dickson Manufacturing Company in 1887; and the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 increased use of these tanks for milk products. The Boston and Maine Railroad (B&M) was using a milk car with glass-lined steel tanks in 1910. Pfaudler designed what became a standard milk car with two 3,000-US-gallon ...
The glass-lined tank which carried the milk was supplied and owned by the dairy firm. Typically weighing 25 long tons (25,000 kg) when loaded with 3,000 imperial gallons (3,603 US gal; 13,638 L) of milk product, it resulted in a wagon that was as heavy as an express passenger coach.
A historical milk tank car for bulk loading at the Illinois Railway Museum. A milk car is a specialized type of tank car designed to carry raw milk between farms, creameries, and processing plants. Milk is now commonly chilled, before loading, and transported in a glass-lined tank car. Such tank cars are often placarded as "Food service use only".
Kinder Morgan Energy Partners announced today that it will acquire American Petroleum Tankers (APT) and State Class Tankers (SCT) for $962 million from affiliates of private equity firms The ...
The milk will arrive via tanker from 100 member dairies and represents the output of more than 116,000 cows. The U.S. Department of Agriculture calculates the average cow produces 8 gallons of ...
United Dairies was a United Kingdom-based creamery, milk bottling and distribution company.The company was formed in 1915 and merged to form Unigate in 1959.. The former United Dairies creamery at Melksham in 2009; the chimney has been greatly reduced in height A United Dairies rail tanker, preserved at the Bluebell Railway ex-LSW Drummond class T14 'Paddlebox' 4-6-0 No. 443 passing through ...
The first Siphons - named after the GWR's Telegraphic code for a milk wagon - appeared from Swindon Works in the 1870s, later given diagram O.1. 75 wagons were built to this diagram under lot numbers 180 and 217, able to carry 17 gallon milk churns stacked two high.
A T5-S-RM2a tanker, American Explorer was laid down in 1957, intended to be the world's first nuclear-powered tanker, but construction costs ballooned; the MSTS, using funds left over from the construction of the Maumee-class, funded her completion with a conventional steam plant. American Explorer (T-AO-165), later T-AOT-165