John:
I have another site with hundreds of containers. Please email me at igoldberg1@earthlink.net and I will send you the link.
Caldreamer
I am doing it! Thanks again, Caldreamer!
LastspikemikeOf course I prefer the OED, it's a British thing but M-W should work.....
The OED is only useful if you want to know the root, origin, or history of a word.
If you want a clear definition of the most common usage of a word, it is nugatory and nebulous.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Well, to get away from baiting and childish insults, and back to the topic of INTERMODAL.
Here is an attempt I made to model something that might have looked like container-on-flatcar service equipment if that had been a thing in the 1950s.
I would love to see other models of intermodal equipment. That is what this thread is about.
Please share your pictures.
I'm surprised you don't model the ATSF approach in the 1960s, which was to use four special containers on a repurposed heavyweight car chassis. Easy adaptive reuse of assets otherwise suitable mostly for work-train service... got the heat & signal lines for head-end use.
Ed will have pix.
Overmod BNSF UP and others modeler ...I would highly suggest looking into getting your container fleet 3D-printed. Many of mine are, and they cost me pennies (granted I own a resin 3d printer). How much would you quote him via PM for whatever number of containers he wants, shipped to his address?
BNSF UP and others modeler ...I would highly suggest looking into getting your container fleet 3D-printed. Many of mine are, and they cost me pennies (granted I own a resin 3d printer).
How much would you quote him via PM for whatever number of containers he wants, shipped to his address?
I'm guessing you're being funny, (and I'm not selling anything currently) but mine cost me like 75 cents or less to print.
Dwell on that next time you browse shapeways considering making model purchases...
I'm beginning to realize that Windows 10 and sound decoders have a lot in common. There are so many things you have to change in order to get them to work the way you want.
BEAUSABRE Intermodal goes surprisingly far back. The PRR was hauling containers in the 1930's Prototype Railroad Topics: Pennsylvania Railroad FM Flat Car Modeling (prototopics.blogspot.com) https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/topic/what-is-this-prr-flat-car-carrying https://www.ebay.com/itm/313095823741
Intermodal goes surprisingly far back. The PRR was hauling containers in the 1930's
Prototype Railroad Topics: Pennsylvania Railroad FM Flat Car Modeling (prototopics.blogspot.com)
https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/topic/what-is-this-prr-flat-car-carrying
https://www.ebay.com/itm/313095823741
So was the New York Central
I tried to sell my two cents worth, but no one would give me a plug nickel for it.
I don't have a leg to stand on.
DSchmittSo was the New York Central
That is a great picture of early intermodal train equipment.
I had not seen it before. Thank you for sharing.
SeeYou190That is a great picture of early intermodal train equipment.
LastspikemikeRoad trailers were not standardized for all modes of transport.
Trailer hitches and king posts are very much standardized.
But not as versatile as containers which can be stacked and shipped on boats, which trailers obviously can't.
Chris van der Heide
My Algoma Central Railway Modeling Blog