USA Trains Containers Part 2!

[Anonymous]

Hi All, Ok this started with the expected G scale (1/29) Class 66 Locomotive from Aristocraft.
For us Brits this is great news. Ok I thought, it will be a long time before anything for it to pull will be produced.
There are beautiful 1/29 scale containers available out there so why not build a British style container flat wagon for the Loco to pull along with the containers.
I enlarged a modern flat car drawing to 1/29 scale.....Then I discovered the containers were nearly 9 feet wide instead of 8! So they don't fit the wagon.
Interested to know why such an excellent model is nearly a foot too wide. In fact if you look at them end on you can see they are nearly square. All is not lost I can adjust the wagon and it is still within the British Loading Gauge (JUST)!
Cheers
Roger

[Capt Bob Johnson]

Ah Ha!
Original containers were 8feet W x 8 feet Hx20 feet long. then came 40 foot length. then they came out with the hi cube which was 8 feet wide x8feet 6 inches H. I'll bet somebody measured the height of a hi cube, but was looking and thinking of an original.

It has devolved that Mr. McLean's vision has been clouded by so many companies using thier own rules that now there are all kinds of wierd container sizes, not the standard universal size he had envisioned.