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and he notes - Whaddya know - someone at Heinz searched their archives and found out how they did it and emailed me: The car was spotted on an elevated grade track next to the canning factory and the cucumbers along with the brine were siphoned out with a hose. The last few cukes were dipped out with buckets by a crew that entered the car. When empty and cleaned out, the car returned to the brine plant for a refill. They said that the 'pickles' weren't pickles until they were processed, as cucumbers were used in other products. The cars were called "Pickle Cars" because of the Heinz Pickle advertisement on the sides, but they were really used to haul cucumbers in brine. They also noted that some cars had wooden sides like refrigerator cars for cold climate shipments, (in answer to my question about freezing in the winter). So that's how it was done and though it seems ridikiless, the 'pickle cars' were really 'pickleless' - hauling cukes was was the reason they were built...
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