OK. So the car says "chocolate only". Then obvioulsly, only chocolate is shipped in the car.
If its something else:
Bakers Chocolate company could be hauling ingredients to make chocolate, or ingredients to make any other chocolate product they sold.
Like Hershey's Chocolate company makes candy bars, not just chocolate.
I guess we'd want to know what Bakers Chocolate company actually made.
- Douglas
Doughless OK. So the car says "chocolate only". Then obvioulsly, only chocolate is shipped in the car. If its something else: Bakers Chocolate company could be hauling ingredients to make chocolate, or ingredients to make any other chocolate product they sold. Like Hershey's Chocolate company makes candy bars, not just chocolate. I guess we'd want to know what Bakers Chocolate company actually made.
Oooh, Ooooh! I know this one! A- Chocolate. Final answer.
Don't yell at me too much guys. I just can't resist this tread. It has two of my favoirte things. Chocolate, and an opportunity for sarcasm.
JJF
Prototypically modeling the Great Northern in Minnesota with just a hint of freelancing.
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I did find still another Baker's Chocolate car:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/79009322@N04/8679337990/
note "CHOCOLATE ONLY"
Ed
The most recent example Ed posted looks to be a two-compartment car.
Dark chocolate in one tank, milk chocolate in the other ?
A Jif peanut butter car might be handy about now... might make a clever commercial.
Here's another:
A Sweet Car by Chris Tokarcik, on Flickr
Regards, Ed
I notice that the car in the picture that Ed-7j43k posted has a sign specifying chocolate only, but the car in Ohio-Ed's photo does not, which makes me think maybe Baker's used the "chocolate only" cars for chocolate only and some of their other cars for corn syrup, vegetable oil and whatever else they needed to haul. Just an idea. Perhaps JDawg has an opinion about this?
-Matt
Returning to model railroading after 40 years and taking unconscionable liberties with the SP&S, Northern Pacific and Great Northern roads in the '40s and '50s.
Look closely, in the shadow of the hand rail on the near end of 31057 that Ed posted. Doesn't that look like "chocolate only" hiding in that shadow? Wouldn't it be nice if some decal manufacturer offered decals for these cars?
So, again, I strongly believe it is a chocolate only car. Corn syrup would be hauled in a specially marked car. "Corn Syrup Only". These cars are often labeled by a company like ADM or Cargill. Sugar would be hauled in a specially marked covered hopper. "Sugar Only". It could me marked by a railroad, or by a leasing firm. Milk would be by truck. Vegetable oils would be hauled in a specifically marked car. Perhaps with a Cargill logo, or just a leasing firm. I think that for almost every tank car which hauls commodities that you and I will end up ingesting, the car is going to be labeled. This only or that only. Those 10,000 gal cars hauled everything, but each car only ever carried one or two things. I highly doubt that Bakers chocolate would send their specific car to a corn syrup manufacture to be filled. More likely, they would buy x amount of car loads, and they would receive those loads in leased cars.
I suspect that the entity shipping the product is the one to arrange for the tank car, as opposed to the receiver. Thus cars leased to Baker's Chocolate would never be sent out to pick up a product.
You could argue that their cars could be used for a backhaul, and that's probably true, with their permission. But it is extremely unlikely that the company that received the chocolate now just happens to need to ship a car of not-chocolate to Baker's Chocolate. And some other company that might use the car wouldn't know to ask.
I suppose that Baker's Chocolate could have set up some sort of special repeat routing, with everyone on board. But that CHOCOLATE ONLY lettering kind of goes against that. Plus the backhaul would have to be compatible with chocolate, or they'd have to clean the tank at each end, every time. That runs the shipping price up. And then they would have written CHOCOLATE AND XXXXXX ONLY.
7j43kYou could argue that their cars could be used for a backhaul, and that's probably true, with their permission.
Yeah, no backhaul for tank cars since you'd have to ship the SAME product back...
Chris van der Heide
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7j43k I suspect that the entity shipping the product is the one to arrange for the tank car, as opposed to the receiver. Thus cars leased to Baker's Chocolate would never be sent out to pick up a product. You could argue that their cars could be used for a backhaul, and that's probably true, with their permission. But it is extremely unlikely that the company that received the chocolate now just happens to need to ship a car of not-chocolate to Baker's Chocolate. And some other company that might use the car wouldn't know to ask. I suppose that Baker's Chocolate could have set up some sort of special repeat routing, with everyone on board. But that CHOCOLATE ONLY lettering kind of goes against that. Plus the backhaul would have to be compatible with chocolate, or they'd have to clean the tank at each end, every time. That runs the shipping price up. And then they would have written CHOCOLATE AND XXXXXX ONLY. Ed
Agreed.