Anyone built or ideas for an O-scale Chocolate Factory?

I have a number of K-line Baker's Chocolate cars and would like to have a factory with a siding.  Dover, Delaware used to smell amazing when Kraft Foods made Baker's here.

Imagine a chocolate factory with some Mega-Steam chocolate smoke fluid. Hmmmm.....may have to talk to Jeb.

I can recommend woodlands Scenic Door factory to be used as your Hershey Chocolates.
An easy conversion.

Ahh, the smell of fresh baked goods...Nabisco factory on the Blvd. in NE Philly...for miles around you could smell the chocolate chip cookies baking.

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K-line already did one!

Hershey Chocolate factory is a great prototype to model since it has tracks running right next to the factory and lots of photos online.  I recommend Walther's Brook Hill Farm Dairy as a great kit for a chocolate factory.

Here is my early mockup with the Dairy painted Hershey colors and Silos roughed in with tracks between.

That looks great, Dave, nice work.

I was thinking more whimsical...and found a couple of guy's chocolate factories on Youtube...first one is Z-scale, 2nd is HO, and has neat operations.

Lionel should've made one as part of their new Willy Wonka lineup.

I suspect that one could modify one or more of the various Menard's industrial buildings to come uo with something suitable.

I would imagine a factory that produced on the order of Hersheys or Mars would be more than the typical modeler would want to take on.  One option would be to set up a warehouse where finished products were shipped out to wholesalers, with a lead for other cars delivering items needed to manufacture or package the candy.  The whimsey could come from creating an animated effect or adding signs.

Lots of appropriate buildings to fit a variety of layout sizes, but there's a pair of complementary items that would say it all!...

And, Altoona Model Works has a great kit to celebrate those twins!...

For that industrial 'Ole-Factory' experience (Rim-shot, please), add a couple Seuthe smokers and some Mega-Steam "Chocolate" temptation (If Joe is successful in twisting Jeb's arm!), ...and you'll drive everyone in the house crazy!

@Paul Kallus posted:

I was thinking more whimsical...

To sort of synthesize some of the other suggestions, you could do something where, when a button is pushed, smoke units with a hot chocolate scent turn on and pour smoke out the stacks, some "factory sounds" play and lights flash, and then a few Hershey's kisses or fun-sized bars drop down into a tray on the edge of the layout.

@Paul Kallus posted:

That looks great, Dave, nice work.

I was thinking more whimsical...and found a couple of guy's chocolate factories on Youtube...first one is Z-scale, 2nd is HO, and has neat operations.

Wow.  That Hersheys factory definitely dwarfs mine

That factory dwarfs a significant chunk of his entire layout

I watch a lot of SMT Mainline's videos, many of which concern repair of various (mostly) starter-set grade HO locomotives he either finds as part of Ebay lots or are sent/donated by viewers, in addition to weekly livestreams where he takes requests from the chat to run various pieces from his collection. He does have a small loop of O gauge on a smaller floor layout.

---PCJ

Yes, a full-blown chocolate factory could take a great deal of real estate, however it could also be compressed and still look awesome. I am trying to build the nerve to contact Alan Graziano about such a project, though am not near ready to commit...Lionel's fantasy items via past two catalogs are taking all my train budget!

FWIW, here's a couple of shots of what I've done thus far regarding a chocolate factory and brewery, the latter using multiple Menards structures as some have suggested. By the way, I have many breweries on my layout; beer, candy, and pretzels are very popular in Pretzelvania - the name of my layout

Using a background building available from Nick of pghtrainfanatic.

Using multiple Menards buildings and various details including smokestacks from Altoona Works Models and Lionel and towers by Weaver and Woodland Scenics.

I'm surprised no one mentioned the three prominent chocolate factory silos visible from I-480 in Cleveland that are for Malley's Chocolates.  Google "Malley's Chocolates Brookpark" for photos.  Each silo is 12 x 88 feet, and are labeled appropriately for sugar, milk and cocoa. Supposedly they were going to be actually used to store the raw materials, but that idea was scrapped at some point.

Regards, Dale

Towards the suggestion for Lionel to make something to go along with their Willy Wonka set...an easy factory would be the operating transfer station - the tooling purchased from MTH. Thus far, Lionel has made this in various names...I purchased the Christmas-themed one. Of course, any Willy Wonka factory would need the oompa loompa figures

@Paul Kallus posted:

Ahh, the smell of fresh baked goods...Nabisco factory on the Blvd. in NE Philly...for miles around you could smell the chocolate chip cookies baking.

And don't forget the old Tastykake plant in Philly as well!