Look at what I found …

[bbussey]

Unearthed this gem during garage cleanup. Forgot I had it. I might have to scrounge up some more MTL Sealand containers, as I think I have only two. 

[davefoxx]

Bryan,

Those TwinStacks are sweet!  Your post reminded me that I still have four units and a number of Sealand 40’ containers that I never sold when I moved to HO scale!



Anybody want to make an offer for these?    Two are weathered by a previous owner, and the other two (with the containers) have Fox Valley wheelsets, if I remember correctly.

DFF

[nkalanaga]

Will they hold, and did the prototype every carry, 35 ft containers?  Or were the shorter containers out of service by the time these were built?

[NSEGeorge]

The very earliest Twinstacks had fitments for the 35 footers, as they were at the end of their life, but still in use when the twinstacks were first delivered. If you had a set of the Southern Pacific "Big Orange" stack cars, which pre-dated the twinstacks, you would be right in the middle of the 35 footers life.

[Ike the BN Freak]

Bryan,

Those TwinStacks are sweet!  Your post reminded me that I still have four units and a number of Sealand 40’ containers that I never sold when I moved to HO scale!



Anybody want to make an offer for these?    Two are weathered by a previous owner, and the other two (with the containers) have Fox Valley wheelsets, if I remember correctly.

DFF

Those sealand ones are tempting, as BN had a contract in my era running them in the northern transcon...

[jagged ben]

Unearthed this gem during garage cleanup. Forgot I had it. I might have to scrounge up some more MTL Sealand containers, as I think I have only two. 

MTL containers won't fit in those cars.  They (the containers) are unprototypically wide.

[nkalanaga]

My MTL containers are the same width as the ones from JTC, at least across the corner castings. 

[NSEGeorge]

Con Cor 40 footers on the old Herpa tooling will not fit. Anything that is prototypical width will fit.

[Paradise275]

I have a couple of those but will have to glue them back together as the original glue dried up. LOL.
Rick

[nkalanaga]

ConCor/Herpa won't fit in anything remotely prototypical.  The original mountings used a clip under each end of the container, typical of European 60s and 70s containers, most of which were too wide.  I have some of  the CC boxes, and now have more accurate versions of all of the names.  One of these days I'll strip the CC ones and make portable housing units for my narrow gauge MOW crews.

The original Arnold/Rapido and Trix containers have the same issue, but the corner castings on those stick out from the sides enough they can be trimmed to fit MT flatcars.  I doubt they could be made to fit a double-stack.

[jagged ben]

ConCoc/Herpa containers are all roughly 108 scale inches wide so they'll fit in well cars that carry domestic containers, i.e. 53ft and 48ft wells, and cut down versions of the latter.  They won't fit in TwinStacks or the Lopac 40ft wells (the Interrail/Deluxe model) because those prototypes are only wide enough to carry 96" wide ISO containers.

[nkalanaga]

Ben:  Thank you.  I had forgotten that many domestic containers are wider than the ISO boxes. 

[tehachapifan]

I have a set of these (in SP/Trailer Train), and they are neat cars and, AFAIK, the only ones patterned after this unique prototype. The set I have is extremely light when empty and seems to be made of a type of plastic that is pretty brittle. One of the articulation joints on mine has a large chunk missing and I have no idea when, where or how that happened. Still, these are cool cars!

[Sokramiketes]

One of the first "real" models I remember building with my Dad was an A-Line HO kit for a BN Twinstack.  What a kit.  And man did I learn how to apply decals between the 5 cars and 10 A-Line containers!

Still have a soft spot for the models, and don't model much near that era.