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Scottl

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New Con-cor 53' container schemes
« on: November 15, 2013, 01:56:29 PM »
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I could not find any posting for this.  Con-cor is putting out a few new 53' container schemes, several of which should be of interest:

CN Green swoosh "We deliver"
Axsun
CSX
Bison
Canadian Tire ( :D)
JB Hunt

As far as I can tell, the Con-cor 53' containers are fine, it is the old 40' containers that were too wide, so these new schemes are welcome editions to my intermodal trains.

I'll just add yet another virtue of n-scale.  The set of two HO containers are $28  :scared:

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Re: New Con-cor 53' container schemes
« Reply #1 on: November 15, 2013, 03:17:29 PM »
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If by fine, you mean "better than nothing" then yes they are fine.   Otherwise, they're nothing more than really bad stand-ins, to the point that I believe the "printables" on eBay are maybe a better choice.  I will admit I haven not bought any of those printed cardstock ones yet but they don't look bad from the photos.

We sorely need another manufacturer to step up in n-scale intermodal.  I'm frankly shocked that Kato has been the only one to get in the game in the past 10 years or so.   Deluxe has basically been dead in the water for the past 7-8 years and we are left with scraps until that situation is resolved or until Atlas, Athearn, BLMA, or SOMEBODY jumps in.   I thought it would be a very attractive and relatively easy (no moving parts) market for Atlas or Athearn since they've already got models in HO.
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Re: New Con-cor 53' container schemes
« Reply #2 on: November 15, 2013, 06:18:30 PM »
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Are the ones off ebay from DigCom Designs?  I've seen samples from them on their Facebook page that look worth giving a try.  I have(hate?) to admit, I've several of the ConCor ones I've thought about stripping and painting, and even using a couple to make the 28' containers that BN and UPS have/had.

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Re: New Con-cor 53' container schemes
« Reply #3 on: November 16, 2013, 01:14:46 AM »
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If by 'fine' one refers to having proper scale length and width such that the will fit, say, in Kato Maxi IV well cars, then yes they are fine.  Unlike, say CC 40' containers and Deluxe Innovations Twinstacks.

As far as looking right, the Con-Cor 53' and 48' containers seem to be based on a 90's-era Monon sheet post container.  Their pretty accurate representations for certain prototypes as long as you don't literally count the rivets, and don't mind them being approx 4 scale inches too short in height.

http://www.matts-place.com/intermodal/part3/images/apcu530582.jpg
http://www.matts-place.com/intermodal/part3/images/apcu530313.jpg

The photos show paint schemes that I consider to be models of the actual prototype, or close enough.    That's the 48' and 53' white APL scheme, and the 48' BN America scheme.  Some others that CC has done that are 'plausible'  (which is to say that the companies could have owned such containers,  but I don't know they did) include JB Hunt (both sizes), Southern Pacific 48', and Conrail Mercury 48'.     Santa Fe would be all right, but I don't think CC actually did that one. 

Along with similar containers from Deluxe, you can get a sense of the prototype variation among 90's sheet post containers, which of course were mostly 48' not 53'.    However with respect to JB Hunt, that plausibility really only applies if you're modeling the 90s, not the 21st century.

With respect to the newly announced paint schemes, and many others that CC has done over the years, they are do not closely resemble any prototype containers that actually carried those schemes.  Sheet-post containers are a much smaller percentage of containers than they used to be.  So most of those schemes really belong on corrugated, exterior post, or plate wall containers.  Newer sheet post containers tend to look substantially different with far fewer rivets, if any. 

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Re: New Con-cor 53' container schemes
« Reply #4 on: November 16, 2013, 01:16:21 AM »
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We sorely need another manufacturer to step up in n-scale intermodal.  I'm frankly shocked that Kato has been the only one to get in the game in the past 10 years or so.   Deluxe has basically been dead in the water for the past 7-8 years and we are left with scraps until that situation is resolved or until Atlas, Athearn, BLMA, or SOMEBODY jumps in.   I thought it would be a very attractive and relatively easy (no moving parts) market for Atlas or Athearn since they've already got models in HO.

Hear Hear!

Not that I really need more containers in my collection though...