Not all that unusual to see, but I enloy them when I see them. Does anyone know off hand if there is an appropriate well car in N scale available for the contemporary modeler to copy this setup?
I sure the one walthers makes would work. Another setup I've seen is containers on the TTX Piggyback cars.
I love intermodal and have seen trailers in well cars before, but I can't recall seeing two pups like that. Most pups are 28', so I am guessing that it is a 53' well car? I'll check some of my photos. Harold
Great photo! It could be a 48-footer. The end of the well comes to about 3/4 of the trailer, which would be 21ft. x 2 = 42ft. So about six feet left between the trailers? I dunno, hard to say. Anyway, this is a fairly common practice for the AP cars. Very common on BNSF stack trains in Texas (from Richmond, CA). Con-Cor offers an AP Husky Stack 48-footer with the trailer hitches on each end. (appropriate, not sure about "prototypical-ness" of the car though) Also, Alan Curtis offers a 3-unit AP Doublestack National Steel 48-foot car, and actually shows this setup on the model photo on his website.
Thanks for the feedback guys. The well car is a 3 unit 53'er. I don't think the National Steel cars are still used today for trailers. I'm thinking they all had their hitches removed in the 90's sometime. I love Alan's products, and have many, but I'm just not sure if any of them are appropriate for trailers today.
You know, I think that Alan guy lurks around here from time to time... maybe we can get him to answer Harold
