Con Cor 53' containers with climate control units

[screeh]

Back in June of last year, I saw that the folks at Con-Cor were planning to re-release their smooth side 53' containers, so I sent off an email with a big barrel of suggested schemes and mentioned that they should think about providing exernally-mounted heaters as a detail part.

Late last year they released Bison, Canadian Tire, and CN schemes and I was a pretty happy camper.

Now they've really done it: Armour, Clarke, CN and Kleysen schemes complete with heaters! http://www.con-cor.com/N-53-Ft-Containers-with-Climate-Control-2014.html

Here are some of the links I sent to Con-Cor last year:

• Armour Transportation http://www.matts-place.com/intermodal/part4/canada/plhu303061.jpg, http://www.matts-place.com/intermodal/part4/canada/plhu303255.jpg and http://www.matts-place.com/intermodal/part4/canada/plhu303158.jpg
• Clarke Transport  http://www.matts-place.com/intermodal/part4/canada/clru532811.jpg and http://www.matts-place.com/intermodal/part4/canada/cthu539195.jpg
• CN Intermodal  http://www.matts-place.com/intermodal/part4/canada/cnru289004b.jpg
• Kleysen  http://www.matts-place.com/intermodal/part4/canada/kleu67579.jpg

I'm a very happy camper (with a wallet that's wincing at the pain I'm about to inflict upon it - but hey, whaddya gonna do when a manufacturer does what you asked them to do?)

[Smike]

Those are sweet, and when I went to check out the Con Cor site  I happen to notice they have HUB containers    Needs a ton of them.

Anyone know who has any of those in stock?

[Scottl]

I would be an easy target for a lot of these, especially those road names.  However, I am reluctant to buy as these are the units with huge rivets on the side, correct?

[Denver Road Doug]

these are the units with huge rivets on the side, correct?

Yes.

[Scottl]

Part of me wants to buy one to sand off the rivets and recast it for personal use, but it is probably not worth the hassle.  I'm thinking Digcom paper versions look good and will fill out my roster of 53' units. 

I really wish Deluxe Innovations could get rolling again.  Their tooling is great and we need more containers!   

[daniel_leavitt2000]

A dog with a refrigerator is still just a cold dog.

Like 95% of their recent work, it's a half assed job at best. They should have tired that tooling years ago. Why spend the money to ad new ends on such an awful model?

Bad rivets, too wide, incomparable interconnects, a dubious prototype. Next.

[jagged ben]

I think what's worse is that they show pictures of prototypes that don't remotely match what the models will probably look like.  (Do they have new tooling?  I would like to think so but I highly doubt it.)

The only appropriate paint scheme for their tooling, AFAIK, is the white APL scheme.  Which is good if you're modeling the mid 90s. 

I did buy some of the Scheider versions because at least Schneider has some smooth side containers.  (Eventually if I can paint up my own replacements then they will get replaced.)   Can't say the same for Pacer, Hub, etc...

The best hope for new, relatively accurate 53' cans right now is Kato.

[daniel_leavitt2000]

I always wanted to glue 1000 tennis balls to a real Schneider container so there would be at least one prototype for the CC tooling.

I wish Dave at DI had better luck. I could use dozens of his containers.

[asarge]

Considering nobody else is doing new schemes on containers EXCEPT Con-Cor and the very occasional Kato and that is not likely to change in the near future, we've been selling quite a few. Most don't care that much and are grabbing them up to add more variety to their stack trains. Wish somebody would do some new reefer trailers too, again not likely to happen anytime soon.

[Denver Road Doug]

I always wanted to glue 1000 tennis balls to a real Schneider container so there would be at least one prototype for the CC tooling.

I wish Dave at DI had better luck. I could use dozens of his containers.

You might want to use basketballs, ijs.   

It is a shame that DI has been unable to really recover.   I feel like some of the other mfg's have respect for Dave and haven't jumped on some opportunities.   But I gotta think at some point containers are gonna be too hard to resist as a pretty good cash cow.   Atlas, Intermountain, and Athearn all do them in HO so eventually if DI doesn't bring it...somebody will.   Don't get me wrong...I'm right there cheering for Dave and hopefully things get rolling.

[Kisatchie]

It is a shame that DI has been unable to really recover... ...I'm right there cheering for Dave and hopefully things get rolling.

What happened to DI? I haven't heard anything.


Hmm... Kiz should get
those bananas out of
his ears...

[Denver Road Doug]

What happened to DI? I haven't heard anything.

Nothing new, but they got flooded out from Hurricane Sandy, combined with the Great recession, combined with the resultant closing of plants and Bachmann essentially kicking them out of the plant that was left, and oh by the way keeping the majority of their tooling in the process.   And during all that, they moved their headquarters.  Seems they have still had some issues getting product out, and also I think even some licensing beat-downs.   To say things haven't gone swimmingly would be an understatement.

[Scottl]

What happened to Port of Hollywood products?  I picked up some of their containers from someone and they are quite nice. 

For better or for worse, I think Kato will be the source of new container tooling.

[GaryHinshaw]

I'm surprised Craig@BLMA hasn't pulled the trigger on 53' trailers (and maybe containers) by now.  The product can't be too complicated or expensive to make (can it?) and surely having loads to put on those beautiful spine cars would boost their sales too, no?  You're our only hope Craig.   

What happened to Port of Hollywood products?

I may be wrong, but weren't they the original incarnation of Deluxe?

[Scottl]

+1  They would be great products for BLMA.  Much less execution risk I would think. 

Craig, are you listening?