Here are two photos of new GTW CN National Steel Car Intermodal 53' Well Cars headed East to Battle Creek, Michigan in a very fast freight train. They have GTW Grand Trunk Western reporting marks to make them international freight cars.
Andrew Falconer
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Lots of those three packs were brought to Durand by the Flint local. All were brand spanking new with nary a scratch on the paint. Where they went from there I don't know.
Norm
Do you have any reporting numbers to go with the GTW marks?
Dan
Dan, the series is GTW 676000-676199. Send some down my way!
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CShaveRR Dan, the series is GTW 676000-676199. Send some down my way!
Which intermodal terminals will these operate between on the CN system?
Will they be used everywhere on the CN system?
Andrew
More images of a CN GTW 3-Unit Intermodal Container Car.
A DTTX single unit car with the same color scheme
Nice photos, been a while since I have been trainspotting. Might have to see what photos I have in my albums to post here.
Still waiting to see one of these!
Our errands may take us in the vicinity of the west end of Clearing tomorrow, so I shall keep my fingers crossed.
As for those DTTX 888000-series cars, we haven't been able to confirm their origin: they were definitely not new, though; the build dates were 1992. The best guess as to origin is that these single-unit cars are former CP three-unit drawbar-connected cars, divided up.
Not a 100% certain about this , but on an Intermodal Forum, I monitor, there was some discussion, a while back, referencing a BNSF program rebuilding a number of 48' well car sets to handle 53' boxes.
IIRC one of the locations doing that rebuild program was a Progress Rail facility near Amarillo, Texas(?)
I know that I am seeing more and more of the 53 foot containers on what appear to be newly painted cars as I see on the COFC trains on the Transcon through this area.
Update from a train a week ago.
These are new photos from another angle on a slower moving train.
comment on the new CN 53' containers
I see them quite a bit on the CSX in atlanta
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