by Tracer
Obviously there would be clearance issues. My guess would be you need to have an empty container on top to keep the car from being top heavy. Any thoughts?
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Allen Hazen wrote:...Try this on for size, Mr. Hazen - a four-truck, 16 container (32 TEU) well car running on two sets of rails :
At which point another possibility suggests itself. U.S. rail vehicles are typically over twice the width of the track gauge (a bit over ten feet, versus 56.5 inches), and single-stack trains of standard containers can operate on narrow gauge lines (e.g. the 3.5 foot gauge of Queensland Railways in Australia). So on a super-wide gauge railway you could run cars capable of carrying two shipping containers side-by-side! Giving, with two-deep mounting, the effect of quadruple-stack:
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Cowford wrote:"Dutch is right, why ship empty containers that way?"That a-way!
What way?
CN Sparky wrote:They already run triple-stack trains in India.. but the containers are only 6"6" high, so the overall height is the same.Were the shorter containers introduced for the purpose of triple stacking, or do they just happen to have a shorter standard container?
CN Sparky wrote:They already run triple-stack trains in India.. but the containers are only 6"6" high, so the overall height is the same.didn't they pioneer tripple stack passenger seating; "Inside, outside and roof top". 8^)
Passenger wrote:Were the shorter containers introduced for the purpose of triple stacking, or do they just happen to have a shorter standard container?Apparently the shorter containers were introduced for this service:
A large number of commodities don’t need a 8.5-feet high container. We are attempting to reduce the height of the container to 6.5 feet so we can stack three containers instead of two. If a double-stack container train doubled our carrying capacity, a triple-stack container train would treble it,” said RC Dubey, MD, Pipavav Railway Corporation (PRCL), a 50:50 JV between Indian Railways and Gujarat Pipavav Port (GPPL) which ran the first double-stack container train in IndiaArticle