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For UP domestic intermodal, here's my suggestion: Trailers - as noted above, Schneider National is the biggest as far as 53' trailers. Wabash models did some nice HO units a few years back. UPS rides the UP a lot - in spite of what you hear about service, UPS still runs a lot on UP. They have distinctive 28' trailers (silver with sort of a pot-belly bottom.) The LTL guys ride UP a lot (Roadway, Yellow). They usually run 28's Every Tom, *** and Harry mid size trucker is trying to get into the intermodal game. U.S. Express is doing some w/ UP. You will also see some rail-trailers (ie. REAZ, XTRZ, or TIPZ reporting marks). These are pool trailers. The LTL guys tap this pool for extra capacity as do some intermodal providers. For containers - the biggie on UP is the EMP program, which is a UP Joint Venture with NS Ry. EMP= Equip. Mgt Provider. They have over 25,000 containers 48' and 53' (reporting marks EMPU = 48, EMRU=53 retrofitted standard, EMHU= 53' high cube. UP and NS own the EMP boxes and the intermodal shipping community loads and pays for them. Schneider National has taken a fleet of EMP boxes on long term assignment. They have about 3,000 which have EMP and Schneider "OptiModal" decals. Reporting marks are OPSU. Athearn makes models of all of the EMP variants including OPSU. Pacer Stacktrain runs their new 53' PATU boxes on UP. These are corrugated steel boxes. They look like steamship boxes (built like 40' boxes) but they are 53 domestic units. UP also partners w/ CSX RR on two container programs. One is called "STAX" and the other the CSXU container program. There are pics of these boxes on the website below. Scroll all the way to the bottom for 53' equip. I pleased that there's even a couple pics that I took posted on the site. Here's a link to a site with pics of lots of domestic intermodal equip. Hope this helps http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Lab/5410/domestic_containers.htm - - Stack
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