I would imagine the Hostess cars are carrying flour, and the Brach's cars cane sugar or something like that. Your analogy does't work too well here. I work in a tire plant and 98% of our carbon black comes in carbon hoppers. We make the tires and they go out in trucks or box cars.
Mikie
VERY ,VERY CAREFULLY
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The army/navy base thread set me thinking... (Okay, so blame the lunacy on the shock of unaccustomed activity).
With Walthers' "Bracks Candy" and "Hostess cakes" Airslide cars ... how do they line up the candy and cakes so that they don't jam up the outlets?
I have this image of the outlet end of the pipe spraying cream cakes onto a pile...
Maybe I should go lay in a darkened room for a while?
I knew all this thinking would cause trouble...