KC tallow container wagons
KC 114 at Geelong loco depot. May 15 1978.
Photo courtesy Geoff Winkler
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Converted from IY open wagons this class carried special "Tallow" containers. Tallow is a by product of animal slaughter. The only traffic I'm aware of was from Uncle Ben's pet food plant at Wodonga to a unloading facility near the canal zone of Melbourne Yard where the containers were transferred to road truck | |||||||||||||
The classender KC 121 awaits the scrappers torch at Ranglea 1979
Unknown KC at West Footscray, 1979
Closeup of stencil/load board and container lugs
The photo below is from the March 1962 VR newletter
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Containers carrying tallow. At Dynon, steam fed pipes liquify the tallow before road trucks convey it to soap factories.
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