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5/4/2024
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Viewing Album:  Containers and trailers
 
By:Tom Beckett
Dates:1/1/1985 - 10/11/2018
Album Info:A lot of intermodal freight has gone to containers, and trailers are not seen as much, though I have included them here. International freight has been shipped in them since the 1960's, and there has been a growing trend over the last 30 years toward them in domestic freight as well. JB Hunt got into them early-I pulled a lot of them as a driver there in the 90's, and they already had a fleet of 15,000 in 1995 when I started there. They now have something like 75,000. Others have joined that club as well, and seeing Swift, Schneider, C R England, Fed Ex, etc, containers are common. I have made an effort to get photos, which are here. Modelers, feel free to use these in your modeling efforts.
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Description:  Given the way equipment gets leased, comes off lease, gets sold, etc, it should be no surprise that some of it winds up patch painted, such as this pair of former EMP boxes, seen on the northbound 181 train south of Decatur on the KCS
Photo Date:  3/3/2024  Upload Date: 3/6/2024 5:39:28 AM
Location:  Decatur, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  35   Comments: 1
APL logo
Title:  APL logo
Description:  Back in the day when stack trains were still something of a novelty, American President Lines had a large eagle on their containers, and their trains were long strings of these boxes, stretched out for more than a mile. Now the logo has changed, and its APL Logistics. More accurate than the eagle, but a lot less impactful. This one is on the KCS, on the 181 train
Photo Date:  3/3/2024  Upload Date: 3/6/2024 5:45:13 AM
Location:  Decatur, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  32   Comments: 1
Buffalo riding high
Title:  Buffalo riding high
Description:  A pair of stacked Bison containers rolls north on the CPKC 181 train
Photo Date:  3/3/2024  Upload Date: 3/6/2024 5:57:22 AM
Location:  Decatur, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  25   Comments: 1
Fast!!
Title:  Fast!!
Description:  I was following a 181 train north, the usual block of containers on the head end. What was new, were these Fastfrate containers, a line I had not seen before. From the maple leaf, it was apparent they originated in Canada, a new business segment moving across North America.
Photo Date:  3/10/2024  Upload Date: 3/15/2024 6:28:12 AM
Location:  Decatur, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories: 
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Views:  28   Comments: 1
Broadside
Title:  Broadside
Description:  Broadside view of one of the Fastfrate containers on the 181 train.
Photo Date:  3/10/2024  Upload Date: 3/15/2024 6:30:17 AM
Location:  Decatur, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
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Views:  26   Comments: 1

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