Re: Car Types for a Brown & Haley Candy Factory
Gary
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Cocoa beans did not need refrigeration or insulation. Hershey had insulated cars for its PRODUCTS, which did need insulation. Deliveries to the candy factory should include packaging (specialty cardboard papers), inks (for decorating candy boxes), sugars (cane sugar or syrup, or corn syrup), fats (butter, oils), possibly milk (for milk chocolate) and the other ingredients (chocolate, flavorings). A large candy producer certainly could generate carloads, but LCL sounds right for a small factory. Tim O'
The Milwaukee Road served the Brown & Haley candy factory in Tacoma, WA, a substantial building of maybe 5 stories and there is a partial picture of it on page 43 of A Northwest Rail Pictorial II using pictures from Warren W. Wing.
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