Intermodal Daze

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Intermodal Daze

Actor Gene Hackman portraying Lex Luthor in the Superman movie starring Christopher Reeves said to General Zod "Due to my fascination with beachfront property I'll take Australia" as his reward for delivering Superman to become a prisoner. 

New Intermodal 5 Unit Well Car

I use a similar line today to present Intermodal Daze. "Due to my fascination with Intermodal trains I'll take this five unit well car set and more".

The SFLC 40' well cars see their first run on the layout.

The five unit set is considered a single car. The cars are metal giving them a good amount of weight and came with metal wheels and Proto knuckle couplers on the A & B ends.

New Containers

A trip to my LHS, Trainmaster Models in Auburn, GA for their 50% off used merchandise sale led to the below purchases. New well cars need new (used) containers!

Two Athearn BB CN 48'ers and three NYK Line were still new in their boxes. 

Athearn BB CNRU 280203 rides on top of two Athearn BB 20' containers. 

An older 48' CP Rail container will ride on the new BB CN container today.

The BB NYK Line 40' containers fit perfectly on these Walthers 60' COFC flatcars.

All three of the new containers have found a temporary home today.

New Trailer

I picked up this still new Walthers Southern Railway Flexi-Van Trailer that was sold as used during the Trainmaster Models sale.

I chose the trailer version for the build which is now complete. Extra weight has been added. The door lock rods are a bit fragile and it looks like I lost part of one.

SC-28 gets moves to the TOFC Ramp for loading onto a trailer.

The SC-28 rides on a Walthers Trailer-Train G-85 TOFC flatcar. I had to trim the bottom of the landing gear so the kingpin would sit in the trailer hitch.

On another day the SC-208 heads towards Terminal Yard on a 50' CP Rail TOFC flatcar.

New 20' Container Chassis

Athearn BB Evergreen and OCGL 20' container chassis kits were bought at Trainmaster Models.

A ebay bid  that I totally forgot about won and brought these five APLZ container kits my way.

I built the seven kits in assembly line fashion as seen below. The kits went together easily. The chassis and wheels were sprayed with dullcote prior to attaching the tires and adding them to the chassis. 

While simple builds the kits do contain mud flaps which gives them a nice prototypical appearance.

Seven new chassis await assignment as other 20' containers on chassis ride as TOFC traffic on TOFC flatcars in the background. 

I have a good number of 20' containers that I can use in various ways on the layout. Looks like the driver didn't raise the landing gear high enough.

The 20'ers look good and don't take up much space.

Backed up to an industry loading door.

Adding a modern touch to older 75' F85 TOFC flatcars.

The OCGL and Evergreen chassis add some color as well!

New Intermodal Equipment in Action!!!

Thanks for reading and watching!!!

See you soon!!!