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[quote user="Safety Valve"] My solution will be to put a great big magnet on each end of a container like a wooden child's toy train and run em.You laugh. But get a good electro magnet going and see what you can do with them.[/quote]Actually what you're suggesting is to use the inherent structural quality of the container as a functioning part of the rolling stock itself.  You're not that far off from an idea that came close a while back - there was an outfit in California(?) that proposed using old logging railroad technology as the basis for a single stack container train.  Remember how some logging railroads used only the rail bogies as their "railcar", stacked the logs with one end of the stack resting on one rail bogie and the other half on the next rail bogie?  Others implemented a long drawbar between bogies to absorb draft and buff.  Well, these guys thought they could do the same with containers - have a set of bogies interconnected with a long drawbar, and rest one end of the container on one bogie and the back end on the trailing bogie.The advantage is extremely low tare, but the disadvantage is the possibility of "twisting" a container when one bogie yaws one way and the next bogie yaws the other way.
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