Photo: HBAX Pickle Car #105 (Undated)

Photo courtesy of the New York Central Historical Society:

https://nycshs.omeka.net/items/show/133835

Taken at Elkhart, IN.

HBAX reporting mark assigned to Hirsch Brothers & Company, Louisville, KY.

This is the plant with PRR boxcars on the spur:

https://digital.library.louisville.edu/cdm/fullbrowser/collection/cs/id/3590/rv/singleitem

Inside the plant:

https://www.kyhistory.com/digital/collection/Morgan/id/4502/

Their products were trademarked Paramount Fine Foods.

Lionel made a Hirsch Brothers pickle car.

Bob Chaparro

Hemet, CA