Gunderson

[ericsp]

I stumbled onto this while looking for information about containers cars that had a generator for refrigerated containers.
http://www.portlandtribune.com/archold.cgi?id=15639

[dldance]

Thanks for the posting -
This article points out a fact that significantly impacts railroads and railroad customers - community development organizations often put more efforts into recruiting new businesses into an area than retaining existing businesses. Railcar freight originators are not as welcome as air freight originators.

dd

[M636C]

Interesting Article! We in Australia are getting a lot of Chinese built wagons, mainly grain wagons and single level container wagons - like on the old NYC there are serious clearance restrictions in Eastern Australia, and we had Flexi Vans in the old days too. But to address the point you were looking for, Pacific National have single level container wagons with packaged Cummins generator sets hung under the floor level. They also have wagons with a generator set fixed on the deck in a container slot, and more imaginitively, on double stack wagons like the Gunderson car, they fit a generator on the end above the truck. These cars (bar coupled five packs) often run in the East with single level but tall containers loaded, and I often see one with a generator fitted on the end of an intermediate well car. There are a lot of twenty foot containers equipped with generators, usually owned by the railway or the freight forwarder.

Peter