Thanks everybody. Very useful.
Ian
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See my reply to your querry about one locomotive trains.
Victor A. Baird
www.erstwhilepublications.com
west willow and laurelHi: Do Intermodal trains run a trailer and a container on the same 89' flatcar? Ian
Do Intermodal trains run a trailer and a container on the same 89' flatcar?
Definitely. In HO you can get 89' flat cars from Accurail, Atlas and Walthers which were sometimes referred to as "all purpose" flat cars - they had collapsable hitches for trailers and pedistal tracks which had adustable pedistals to mount 20', 40' and other length containers. The Accurail and Atlas 89' flat cars came with pedistals for mounting containers and it is prototypical to mount both a container and a trailer on those flat cars. Walthers sold both types, so if you get the 89' flat cars from the earlier runs, those were TOFC only (trailer only) and were labeled for Trailer Train Corp with TTX, WTTX, RTTX and KTTX reporting marks. Walthers later released flush deck flat cars marked as TTWX all purpose flat cars, and also painted for FEC, Wisconsin etc.
In the 1970's before 89' flat cars were modified for two 45' trailers, the all purpose version used by Trailer Train was marked as TTAX - it had contrainer tracks with pedistals and folding trailer hitches.
Cheers, Jim
Rio Grande. The Action Road - Focus 1977-1983
More common now, where trailers and containers alike are top loaded using a container crane.
Where older TOFC cars were circus loaded at a ramp, definitely no containers.
Chris van der Heide
My Algoma Central Railway Modeling Blog
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