Yeah, but Hershey was a huge
company, that ran their own car fleet. Hop in your time machine,
try ordering an RB from the local railroad and see what you get. Dennis
Storzek
Dennis
? Is that really the same question ? RB's were around in the 1930's
for wine, beer, chocolate, and other
products. I don't know of any in railroad company service (were there
XI's?) but maybe there were some.
In the 1930's if you needed an insulated box car, you used a reefer most
of the time. I think it was Tony (or
someone) who said that 20% or so of PFE carloadings were non-refrigerated
items.
But a candy company could BUY Hershey's Chocolate - in fact, BULK cocoa
and chocolates are definitely
types of product sold by Hershey's to third parties - chocolate OEM's if
you will. These might arrive in HERX
RB insulated box cars.
