The Rise of Container Trains 

containers are fun, they are cool rectangles

It's a boxcar, but the box and the car are seprate now

5:36 don't forget that india not just run double stack trains on flatbed but also electrified it

It is important to remember that there are two kinds of intermodal traffic. North America excels in long-haul shipping, with many containers going from a port on one ocean to a port on another ocean. Japan, Europe, and especially the British Isles, intermodal is a short-haul operation from port to trucking terminal. The average Japanese freight shipment is about six miles! -- From truck to port, and that's it. That's one reason Freightliner was less successful than Dr. Beeching & Co. promised, and why passenger service dominates the British Isles.

Didn’t know amtrakguy365 was a truck and ship youtuber

I love your thumbnails

1:05 "Or lorry, depending on how British your feeling." As someone who's developed a British accent in recent years, don't mind if I do! I've actually been using container trucks in my Thomas videos for quite a while now, and those flatbeds are now the most common modern truck to be featured on my goods train consists.

Norfolk Southern.

Intermodal containers are greatly efficient. They're quite convenient too. Thanks for documenting the intermodal part of railways.

1:06 or “Horrid Lorry” more like

Intermodals (or pig trains as we like to call em) are also some of the most desirable jobs for railcrews. Because you usually just get on double up the train and ride for a few hours without hardly stopping. Every other train and dispatcher knows you dont stop a pig train because outside other bulk commodity trains those are the ones that make the big money

Every day I always see a Pacific national freight train passing by my hometown in Australia

I like how we all just agreed on a standard box for shipping things in, it's rather convenient.

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Nice share friend

Wish he had mention the upchallenger catch with the intermodal train

Duuude fun fact: containers were actually developed by

6:11 Liver

I’m a bit upset that the well cars replaced the boxcars because it’s my favorite rail car but I’m still glad to see people using Boxcars like on the Grimes Branch

Thank you for the subject of containers. It does raise the question on why did the USA have very high height restrictions compared to Europe.

These containers have traveled more than me

5:38 those F40's are awesome looking!

The Box: How the Shipping Container....... by Marc Levinson. Great book. Explains it all.

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Being able to double stack containers is what makes cargo rail competitive, if you can only have one container high trains the weight is nowhere near the maximum axle load even on low axle load railways like the 22,5 ton railways in Europe. Stora Enso developed the SECU container which is larger and they use it to transport paper on Swedish railways, it utilises the bigger loading gauge "Lastprofil C" and 25 ton axle load to the fullest. P.s. I'm sorry but your Railway is in another castle !

OUTSTANDING VIDEO! One of my favorite type trains🔥🔥🔥🙏👍👍

These timeline and explanation videos are fantastic, I love your simple easy-to-follow editing.

5:30 OLE in of itself isn’t prohibitive of double-stacked containers and India clearly demonstrates.

Just recently did I see a couple CN intermodals run through the prairie towns of Saskatchewan, it seemingly happens every while

That is the most detailed thumbnail I've ever seen for a train related video. Excellent job!

I always see a lot of these at ebj Union station at Dallas as well as on the cpkc and Wylie and occasionally in Plano for detours

Behold the container express!

awesome vid like always

i work in rail intermodal for a class 1 up north coming from trucking & warehouse distro, this was an eye opener in terms of economies of scale those damn trains choo choo at more than 10,000 ft long nowadays a behemoth long line of cool double stacked metal boxes

I work at Chelmsford Railway Station in the UK and every day I see container trains going to and from Felixstowe Port.

Those trains are relaxin' & geometric & oh they're for clearing.

Excellent production!

As an Italian, I can confirm intermodal trains are pretty much everywhere. (Even on my local line before a landslide struck)

Very nice video!

Nice i loove them good job Jared

Nice!!

3:35 Reminds me of when British Railways built large marshalling yards to have wagon cars to be sorted economically but only to have them mostly empty because of the growing trend of costs on the roads and containerized freight.

To expand of Australia using double stack containers, there is currently a project stretching from Melbourne to Brisbane which one of the things it’s for is to allow for double stack containers for the entire route (as well as being the same gauge)

Great video,

They don't mean we still can't electrify the American mainline. Just build the wires higher up!

very nice!

Great video

very interesting and well done learned a lot

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For me, I’ve been interested more in the TOFC/piggyback side of things for about two years now. So much so, I created a map of over 800 trailers originally owned by the railroads, most of which are in storage. I find it interesting how similar but different the two are.

HEY . GT/CN had use Well cars for Piggyback Trailer. Because St.Cair Tunnel. Wasn't Tall for Standard TOFC Flat Cars & AutoRakes & Big Tall Boxcars

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Did engie get included with my sentry gun?

I’ve seen a few of the original Sealand first generation well cars on CSX trains recently. They’re definitely a nice change of pace from the normal wellcars.

Nice

I'll never forget the time UP 3985 hauled that long container train

I like how Flowey is in the video

5:32 double stacks are actually pretty rare in australia. outside of the trans-australian railway between adelaide and perth, there isnt much of any double stacks down here. all of the east coast is run with single stack container trains. although, right now there is a project going on called Inland Rail, where they're upgrading the mainline from melbourne to brisbane (including new sections of track being built across central NSW) which will allow double stacks to run in eastern australia for the first time.

1:14 GIVE ME THAT THOMAS COACH!

Interestingly about the PRR Containers, two of those old containers still survive as storage sheds. Most prominent one I know of is currently in Mingo Junction, Ohio inside the former PRR(Now NS) yard there ironically right next to the old oil house!

So this is why every single day a stack train passes through

I love your video you made.

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Love your thumbnail!

RoLa trains are also very common at least in europe, instead of loading containers onto flatcrars and then onto flatbed trucks, they sometimes load the entire semi-trailer of a truck onto the train and that can more easily be attached to a semi and driven away without the need for gantry cranes

I'd just like to point out one very minor thing. On the data you show on the graphic at 06:04, you are correct that 60-footers are in Canada only, but you could have worded the next statement a little differently. Domestic containers don't have to stay within origin country, but they do stay within the continent of North America. This is because North America went ahead with 102" wide (which is the standard for truck-trailer width in North America), while all other countries, and hence, international containers (20, 40, 45) have remained with the older standard of 96" width. However, the spacing for the holes on the containers (where locating or lifting pins fit) is the same, no matter which design will be built. And... Fun fact... You will never see 20' containers on the top row of a stack train. The only way that proper securing can happen, is with 2 - 20's in the bottom of a well car, with a 40' or larger seated and secured on the top. Another fun fact... You COULD potentially ship a 53 (or a 60) internationally, but they could only sit on the very top row and would likely only be placed every second stack with nothing between, due to the overlength and overwidth. Dealing with it would then be another headache to be overcome in the destination country.

Love the thumbnail!

I'd love to see a video on how those trains that go from the UK all the way to China would work. They sound both really cool and really complicated.

6:43 Sadly UP 6706 shown here is sadly going to be Rebuilt and loose her aging CNW Colors.

1:15 I don't think I would want a piano trying to eat me

CSX has a special decorative container that says ONE COMMUNITY ONE PURPOSE. I saw it on CSX I157 on the end of that train.

Well, my grand-stepdad was a former trucker at the time, but sometimes; my dad told me that he used to haul intermodal from other CSX’s territory railroads, from the harbor of Port of Baltimore; one of our largest port of the East Coast. At first; (Economics) is a banger, although I am displeased and not approval for ‘LONGER TRAINS’ it’s because due to a very specific of a term known ‘PSR’ issued, it was a barbaric decision. While they had to their destinations, connections to port terminals, international harbors, shipping facilities. Surely back in those days, it was a hard time since the Great Recession. Sometimes ‘accidents happen’ with our sweet, rectangular built, colorful, fundamentally loaded of steel containers to get your own country, like (America) is become a popular with financial markets to the Wall Street.

1:05 I feel British enough to even say: "Cargo carrying diesel-powered motor vehicle".. or "Lorry"

F height restrictions who needs highway overpasses anyways, we need triple stacks... make it quad stacks!

Intermodal is cool and I had no idea it went back so far. Though I have to wonder why it containers didn't take off in the US for so much longer compared to Europe?

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Wait, you have HO scale Grand Trunk Locomotive? COOL.

6:30 I saw a mere lot of Chinese shipping containers whilst passing Ferencváros railyard in Budapest, Hungary.

0:48 now yes at a single glance it mightve seemed, cheaper but the true costs were heavy subsidising on roadways aswell as sort of like now labour costs being cut due to literally 30% energy inefficiency compared to steel on steel

Intermodal brought back color to the railway.

5:33 NR29 currently is in the Indian Pacific livery

I'm not sure if this is true or not but I've heard that in the US some of the containers never get opened here. They just cross the continent due to time or cost constraints at the Panema canal.

Yo we have the same toaster Great video

Me as a brazilian, some parts here are just with single stack load due to the eletrefication on some lines of CPTM railway

I guess that’s why boxcars are just about gone

Double stack well cars as a concept date back to the mid 60s but no one wanted to be the first to make them.

we get it bro, you're a Thomas foamer

Don't forget that the 53.ft boxes are for North America only like the States and Canada because the truckers can stretch there chassis from 40 45 to 53 those 40.ft ones you see on the train are mostly from Asia and Europe

Can you do DMUS next

1:13 the thing i sit on while i ponder the rws lore

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Virgin Intermodal Container train vs. Chad Tobacco Hogshead Train.

What no Mooter? :P

(South) Kearny, NJ is pronounced like "carny." I don't know why either. I pass along the edge of that yard on the PATH every day, where Conrail Shared Assets is in the midst of replacing the Point No Point Bridge over the Passaic River. Best-named bridge in the US? Probably.

One big downside of containers (especially on well cars) is how space inefficient they are to load and unload compared to boxcars. Containers (at least the most common ones) can only be unloaded from the ends and often only one so it can only be loaded back to front. So for every container you need a spot on a wall to park it. Boxcars with side doors double that end to end loading, but also can be passed through so instead of a line along one wall you can make a multiple lines with boards in between cars so you can put more cars in one place. This is how the big factories in East Coast cities were so able to move as much product as they could while not being as massive as modern warehouses which need to be to have such a huge wall for trucks to back up to. Now there are side loading containers, but they are uncommon and even then I've never seen a boxcar style one with doors on two sides, just ones that one like a curtainside trailer. But if you did then you could get this same efficiency on a flatcar. There is also a downside that a container adds more weight over a standard van trailer or boxcar, for many products like finished goods this loss in profitable weight is often worth the ease of exchange, but for bulk goods a little bit of weight is a lot of lost profit. This is why stuff like coal, grain and oil is usually still transported in dedicated cars. That and they can be transferred easier either though pipes as a "liquid" like for grain and oil or because you don't have to be as careful with it like coal.

0:43 AWOOOO!!!!!!

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About 20 years from now companies like Kline or evergreen will never use trucks or trains again.

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Doublestacks were a capital idea