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I am looking for some certain intermodal cars but I have no idea just what they are actually called. The cars I am looking for carry one tractor trailer each, do not have real couplers per say that connect them, and are very.............[?] minimalistic. I used to think of them as skeleton cars, but it seems after some research that that is completely wrong. They are normally a dark drab tan color on real trains, and basically just have short wheel wells to hold the trailer in place, then what I believe to be an I-beam then a horizontal bar to hold the front of the trailer in place. Each car has one two-axle truck at the rear, and some sort of connection device at the front that hooks on to the car in front of it. These cars are everywhere on the full scale rail lines, but I need some help finding some for my HO scale layout. So, can I please have some suggestions?
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