Check it out! Free intermodal containers

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Well, almost free. Just follow this link. http://www.igshansa.de/igsdownload.html
The instructions are all in German, but you should be able to see what has to be done. If you have trouble trouble downloading them directly, right click and save the target to your hard disk. I f you still can't download them for HO and N scale, send me your email address and I'll email the PDF's to you. There're 15 for HO scale and 3 for N scale.

I promise, no spam.

[Anonymous]

Thanks Jeff! I downloaded them all. Print off a couple thousand or so and I have myself a loading dock!!! Just kinding about the thousands...

Trevor

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Go for it, Trevor. You can never have too many of these things. Particularly when all you have to do is print them, cut them out and glue the together.

[Medina1128]

I've downloaded some of them. Now, all I have to do is to print them on heavy printer paper, or print them, cut them apart and glue to some cardstock. Cool!

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Hey Marlon;

I printed all of the HO ones on regular paper , cut them out and assembled them and they look great! I now have a stack of 20 containers sitting by my freight terminal, waiting to be shipped. One of my friends had to look twice to see that they weren't plastic or resin.

[n2mopac]

Cool, except I can't get any of the N scale containers to come up. The HO ones seem to come up fine. I'm going to bookmark it and see if I can get them in the future.

Ron

1000

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Ron;

Send me your email address and I'll email the N scale ones to you.[swg]

I promise, no spam.

[Budliner]

I downloaded them a few months ago and was looking for it again
never did find it
thanks for posting it

[jeffrey-wimberly]

You're welcome, Budliner

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Everybody is satisfied so far...

[UnionPacific3985]

Has anyone tried to put these in a well car yet?

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Sounds like a good idea. I don't have any wellcars, yet. Give it a try.
[:D][^]

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Don't every ask at once...

[Anonymous]

Das is vunderbar !!!

[Budliner]

they are at scale and with some hard card stock they work well
I will tri to use the color laser at the office and see how good they look
its always the printer thats the weak link
or printed at staples with thear $1,000,000,000 printer

K-

[bnsfncoal]

Couldn't get the OOCL or the China Shipping in n-scale but they look good

[xdford]

Thanks for the Post! Always on the lookout for something to assist others starting in the hobby!
Regards

Trevor

[SilverSpike]

When viewing the web site in Internet Explorer verison 6.0 SP2 you can have it translated into English using the following procedure. (As long as your default language is English)

1. Open the web site in IE.
2. Right-click in any open white space area of the web page, and a drop down menu will appear.
3. Towards the bottom of the drop down menu will be option "Translate Page into English." Click that option and then at the top of the page you will see it begin to translate. The page will probably refresh and then will be display in a literal Engli***ranslation. Grammer will be off, but you will get the gist of the instructions.

Hope it helps!

[trainmcp]

What a neat idea. Got most of the 20' containers to print but NONE of the 40' containers would open. Any ideas?

[Anonymous]

FYI "in arbeit" literally means "in work" Therefore the 40' N scale versions are in the making and should be available soon. Happy railroading.

[Walter Clot]

Jeffrey, Thanks alot. These are great. BTW my wife is diabetic. She has fround a lot of help using the "glycemic index." It tells which foods are the most helpful or harmful. She was surprised to find some foodsshe thought to be ok, not so and vice versa. I think you can get more info with a "google" search.
Thanks again. Walter

[kevgos]

Not to steal the thread, but there's a wide variety also available from http://home.wanadoo.nl/schatborn/ as well as trailers and other odds & ends.

[coldguy]

These are great for filling in low detail areas of a layout. Now does anyone have a website with printable rolling stock? I need longer trains...ha ha ha!
But seriously, if anyone has more links to sites like this, post them!

[prostreetamx]

I made my own background containers be setting a stack of containers I already have on my scanner. I scaned individual containers placed so once printed they can be cut out and folded into 1 container and even a stack scanned as 1 bunch. By using 5 of 1 style of container placed properly on the scanner, you can get one picture. They will have a different number on each panel, but no one has noticed.

[Anonymous]

A definite home-run. Good Work J.W.

[Anonymous]

Don't forget - even if your scale is not available, you can always enlarge or reduce to get the size you need.

[lofgreen]

Since these were designed to print on European A4 size paper when you print these make sure that in the print dialogue box the "page scaling" says "none" or your printer may reduce the actual printout to fit your printers margins or standard 8.5x11 American size paper and your containers will be smaller than they should be. I found out the hard way when some of my containers I had assembled were shorter than the plastic models. Also, my HP color inkjet needs a large margin on one edge so only one container was usable on each page. My b/w laser didn't have this problem and both were usable but who wants b/w containers? Other color printers may not have this problem.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Somebody with B/W vision?

[Budliner]

QUOTE: Originally posted by kevgos

Not to steal the thread, but there's a wide variety also available from http://home.wanadoo.nl/schatborn/ as well as trailers and other odds & ends.

we have a winner

[jeffrey-wimberly]

On the link listed there are squares with numbers. #23 - #27 are American truck trailers. In the blue text list at the, are links to excellent containers.

http://home.wanadoo.nl/schatborn/

I downloaded a ton of 'em