i heard from a friend he has seen triple stacked container cars does any one have a picture of this? or has any one else seen this? can anyone rember what issue of or which magazine the picture was in? thanks to all who replied to my question At least on this forum i got some response [This message has been edited by hobolarry1948 (edited 20 July 2000).]
I think the Santa Fe was experimenting with a "Triple-Stack" Auto Container Carrier shortly be for the BNSF merger. I saw a pic in Trains Magizine a few years back and it looked as if it was riding on a VERY low slung Stack car. The containers appeared only tall enough to hold Autos of conventional height. ------------------ RAILROADING-TO-THE-MAX! Brent Tidaback, Member #234 and a N-Scaler to boot!
Wouldn't they have to rebuild every tunnel in North America to facilite that? Dane N. ------------------ BC Rail King BCRailKing@Canada.com InternationalRegion@tamr.org for TAMR info. Dane_Nicholson@tamr.org http://www.tamr.org
<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Maxwell Plant: I think the Santa Fe was experimenting with a "Triple-Stack" Auto Container Carrier shortly be for the BNSF merger. I saw a pic in Trains Magizine a few years back and it looked as if it was riding on a VERY low slung Stack car. The containers appeared only tall enough to hold Autos of conventional height. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Yeah, it seems I vaguely remember something about a triple stack car too... from my memory, they were only like 1/2 height containers or some other modification to what was "normal". Chessie
Yeah, I remember seeing a photo. of a triple stack. It was soon realised this was not a viable thing to do! ------------------ Alan The perfect combination - BNSF and N Scale! www.ac-models.com Andersley Western Railroad Alan's American Gallery Alan's European Gallery Alan's British Steam Gallery
It would probably fall over On a model railroad, anyway! ------------------ Alan The perfect combination - BNSF and N Scale! www.ac-models.com Andersley Western Railroad Alan's American Gallery Alan's European Gallery Alan's British Steam Gallery
so if they had 1/2 height stacks, then what was the point? They could use 4 of 'em and they would be the same as 2 standard containers, so if they were even 3/4th the height, what would they carry? Happy Railroading!! Dane N. ------------------ BC Rail King BCRailKing@Canada.com InternationalRegion@tamr.org for TAMR info. Dane_Nicholson@tamr.org http://www.tamr.org
In my mind I can see a 3 or 4 stack car of equal highth as a 2 stack car having a greater chance of falling over in a superelevated curve than a 2 stack car does because of the more joints which would equal greater flexiblity which leads me to ask why the he** would they try that. ------------------ Theres no such thing as having to many coal hoppers or GP40-2 when you model Chessie System LONG LIVE THE KITTEN!!! LONG LIVE BIG BLUE!!!
I think the idea was to give the autos more protection and to possibly cut time in loading and unloading for export models. The height was probably close to a regular double stack so I would think it wouldn't be any more top heavy than the doubles. Obviously they opted to go with the articulated auto rack instead. ------------------ RAILROADING-TO-THE-MAX! Brent Tidaback, Member #234 and a N-Scaler to boot!
