Scale Trains 53ft Intermodal containers

[RSWController]

First announcement. Looks like they are well-licensed to me. Too new for my 1990's era but I bet a lot of you guys will be thrilled. If the pictures in the email are actual N models, they look really nice. I think it was $25 for a three pack.

[Scottl]

http://www.scaletrains.com/pages/n-53-containers

This is great news.  I'm ordering a set of the CN waves!

[Glenn Poole]

Look great---we will now have 53' containers in abundance (ConCor has a great supply and MTL is coming out with one)---however, chassis  are in short supply (currently not available) and semi tractors are not available (but coming from Trainsworx).

[GaryHinshaw]

Oh my...  Between these and the Trainworx trailers, I'll be out over a grand in intermodal loads this year.    How sweet it is!

[amato1969]

Good price point for these!

  Frank

[cfritschle]

First announcement. Looks like they are well-licensed to me. Too new for my 1990's era but I bet a lot of you guys will be thrilled. If the pictures in the email are actual N models, they look really nice. I think it was $25 for a three pack.

Hmmm, it looks like they might even be too new for my 2006 era.  None are showing up in my photos until about 2014.   

Carter

[Glenn Poole]

Hmmm, it looks like they might even be too new for my 2006 era.  None are showing up in my photos until about 2014.   

Carter

Too bad.  If you had a freelance railroad like I do, anything goes.

[GaryHinshaw]

How about 2008 Carter? Here's a shot of a JBH can, in a slightly older scheme:

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=258771&nseq=47

I think they started showing up in large quantities around 2010.   This is a distinct challenge for intermodal modellers and manufacturers though: the container & trailer fleets turn over much faster than locos and rolling stock do.

[cfritschle]

How about 2008 Carter? Here's a shot of a JBH can, in a slightly older scheme:

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=258771&nseq=47

I think they started showing up in large quantities around 2010.   This is a distinct challenge for intermodal modellers and manufacturers though: the container & trailer fleets turn over much faster than locos and rolling stock do.

Gary,

I might have to push my era a little.  My problem is that I have a lot of freight cars in which the prototype was "new" in 1966, so 2006 is the mandatory retirement year for those.   

However, if Trainworx is able to release the Freightliner Cascadia, I will just about have to move the window for my time period, and I may even retire a bunch of freight cars.   

Carter

[daniel_leavitt2000]

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[GaryHinshaw]

They look great in the photos too - thank you for posting them.  Glad to see a few additional schemes that were not yet announced on their web site: HUB group and COFC Logistics.  This release is a grand slam for me. 

[mu26aeh]

Gary,

I might have to push my era a little.  My problem is that I have a lot of freight cars in which the prototype was "new" in 1966, so 2006 is the mandatory retirement year for those.   

However, if Trainworx is able to release the Freightliner Cascadia, I will just about have to move the window for my time period, and I may even retire a bunch of freight cars.   

Carter

Why retire anything ?  Just begin acquiring more modern items and you can have a duel era layout 

[jagged ben]

And so it happens again, two manufacturers announce the same product within a week of each other.    Oh well, at least it's the 'most requested intermodal item in N scale'.   Almost certainly true, that.

Interesting that green Hub Group container in the photo from the show.  That one is not on their website.

Would love to see a new sheet post 53' container for those early JB Hunt years.  Also if Kato would do their rib side in JB Hunt...

[jagged ben]

Hmmm, it looks like they might even be too new for my 2006 era.  None are showing up in my photos until about 2014.   

I can't believe these are all that late.   

The Schneider can may go back to 2006 or at least is a good stand in for very similar corrugated side containers.
The plain JB Hunt scheme (without 'Intermodal') is appropriate for 2006, although JB Hunt may not have had containers of this type then. 

I can't confirm if they are CIMC and not a very similar make, but I've collected photos of both those schemes on corrugated cans as far back as 2011, at least.

'Intermodal' started appearing on new JB Hunt cans in 2011, BTW.

[cfritschle]

Why retire anything ?  Just begin acquiring more modern items and you can have a duel era layout 

Thanks for the suggestion.  I have been in N scale since 1968, and I have equipment that will work from the 1940s on.  However, I am trying to limit my new purchases to items appropriate for 2006 since the majority of what I currently have does work for that year.   

And, I do display my 1950s era equipment (including some rather recent purchases for that time period) on a small layout that goes around the Christmas tree.   

Carter