Thanks to Chris / CopCarSS for my avatar.
Oh come on! Pigs are the other white meat with curly tails, stackers are those acne faced geeks putting cans on the shelf of your local PigglyWiggly.
Let's get back to railroading, for crying out loud!
"pigs" - trailer on a flat car... the trailer is riding piggyback.
"stacker" - one container stacked on one or two containers in a well car.
stack train - a train that is only hauling containers.
piggyback train - a train that is made up of trailers riding on flat cars,
CC
Chris30 wrote: "pigs" - trailer on a flat car... the trailer is riding piggyback. "stacker" - one container stacked on one or two containers in a well car. stack train - a train that is only hauling containers. piggyback train - a train that is made up of trailers riding on flat cars, CC
Thanks Chris30. I'm not sure why I never made the connection between "pigs" and "piggyback".
Futuremodal - a stacker is also something that is green and you put it on a hamburger!
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Sea Cans = Container (just to stir the pot some more)
Chassis= What has rubber tires and carries sea cans around. When not in use, they wind up on end in special racks in the bigger intermodal yards
Bomber Chassis = What carries sea cans around during transloading at the docks
Pigs (trailers on flat cars) have had other names as well. The L&N called them "totes", the Southern called them "TOFCs", and some call them "pig trains".
Stackers have also had other names such as "COFCs", "Intermodel trains", and "Stack trains".
Just a little more "FYI".
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Dan
Stacks are containers that can sit onto of each other with no wheels attached. Pigs are trailers that have wheels attached & sit on a flatcar with the wheels on. Road railers are the ones that ride on wheels on the wheels & are transferred to rubber wheels to go over the road
Murphy Siding wrote: Forgive me, I live in an area where most all railcars are boxcars,gondolas, and hoppers. On some threads there is talk of "pigs" and "stackers". I thought I had it straight for a while, but apparantly not. What are they, and how did they get those particular nicknames?
Living nearby to MP 186 of the UPRR Austin TX Sub
Mookie wrote: Futuremodal - a stacker is also something that is green and you put it on a hamburger! Yum
You mean like that diner scene in "Dumb & Dumber"? If so, I'll pass!
Mookie Stacker
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Larry Resident Microferroequinologist (at least at my house) Everyone goes home; Safety begins with you My Opinion. Standard Disclaimers Apply. No Expiration Date Come ride the rails with me! There's one thing about humility - the moment you think you've got it, you've lost it...
Larry, how about a flying pig.
Thanx for the help, Tree! You understood without any problem.....
Moo....
Cheviot Hill & I forgive Tree68 on the mis-spelling of the old home town (Cin-cinn-ati, only the locals can spell it and fewer know of the Roman general or the society that spawned the name....Go Bengals, Who dey?)
Chad: Care to enter old Tin-shoes in the next Flying Pig Marathon?...supposebly he and CopCar are raising havoc around Georgetown right now getting loopy....The guy is covering ground bigtime.
New Terms for here: "Straddlebuggies" & "PiggiePackers" (as in how do the sea cans and pigs get on and off the train.)
mudchicken wrote: Chad: Care to enter old Tin-shoes in the next Flying Pig Marathon?...supposebly he and CopCar are raising havoc around Georgetown right now getting loopy....The guy is covering ground bigtime.
He sure is. I'm just glad that with all the traveling he is doing he took the time to drive the extra 140 miles (round trip from Thousand Oaks) up to Cajon on sunday. I enjoyed meeting him. I just wish he could have stayed more then a few hours. He should have some great shots to share when he gets home.
mudchicken wrote: Cheviot Hill & I forgive Tree68 on the mis-spelling of the old home town (Cin-cinn-ati, only the locals can spell it and fewer know of the Roman general or the society that spawned the name....Go Bengals, Who dey?)
Cincinnatus was the Roman farmer who left his plow and became a general in time of war crisis. After the war ended he went back to the plow. Correct?
Speaking of the Bengals, the wife saw a bumper sticker the other day that read, "Bengal by birth, Packer by the grace of God". (Ducking and running!)
JOdom wrote: mudchicken wrote: Cheviot Hill & I forgive Tree68 on the mis-spelling of the old home town (Cin-cinn-ati, only the locals can spell it and fewer know of the Roman general or the society that spawned the name....Go Bengals, Who dey?) Cincinnatus was the Roman farmer who left his plow and became a general in time of war crisis. After the war ended he went back to the plow. Correct? Speaking of the Bengals, the wife saw a bumper sticker the other day that read, "Bengal by birth, Packer by the grace of God". (Ducking and running!)
Add to that that George Washington was part of the post Revolutionary War Society named in Cincinnatus' honor for the country's citizen soldiers and that Losantiville became Cincinnati because of that and you're getting warm...
Whut? - The cheesepickers didn't get whomped-on bad enough last night?
mudchicken wrote: JOdom wrote: mudchicken wrote: Cheviot Hill & I forgive Tree68 on the mis-spelling of the old home town (Cin-cinn-ati, only the locals can spell it and fewer know of the Roman general or the society that spawned the name....Go Bengals, Who dey?) Cincinnatus was the Roman farmer who left his plow and became a general in time of war crisis. After the war ended he went back to the plow. Correct? Speaking of the Bengals, the wife saw a bumper sticker the other day that read, "Bengal by birth, Packer by the grace of God". (Ducking and running!) Add to that that George Washington was part of the post Revolutionary War Society named in Cincinnatus' honor for the country's citizen soldiers and that Losantiville became Cincinnati because of that and you're getting warm... Whut? - The cheesepickers didn't get whomped-on bad enough last night?
For his faux pas, Larry is sentenced to spend 3 months east of the Hudson River where people think that stories about a land beyond Buffalo are pure mythology, except, of course, Hollywood.
And the Packer fan might have a serious crises of faith this fall.
Jay
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