Model Railroading > Rapido 53' husky Stacks

Read on another forum, Rapido is doing 53' Husky stacks with containers and containers separate. I don't what scale, or if the stack cars are single cars, I hope, or three unit cars.

I'm hearing they are HO scale.    Glad to see another brand step into modern intermodal.

Jason

They are HO. They are in their Prime Mover line, which is their value line. 

Alec

...nothing on their website yet...but they were showing them off just the other day along with 3800 cube cylindrical hoppers, which will be good sellers as most of the ones available painted in CP Rail or Canadian Pacific are all foobies as they're the larger cars...

Nice can anyone tell me when the 53' started on intermodal? I am modelling the 1988-1990 period
thanks

Jason

Espeekiwi Wrote:
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> Nice can anyone tell me when the 53' started on
> intermodal? I am modelling the 1988-1990 period
> thanks
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> Jason

Roughly the early 90's.  1993 was when Schneider and others started going all out with the 53 trailers.   JB Hunt followed soon after.

We have a whole bunch of TTX well cars stored on the railroad I work for, mostly 40' singles and 5-packs. There sure is an amazing variety of designs that I never realized were out there. I find it sad there is not much in the way of model of 40' well cars, even the single cars. Outside of the Athearn Maxi-1 cars and the Intermountain rehash of the A-line Thrall wells that lack nearly all detail, there is nothing that I can think of off hand. I guess I could count the Intermountian Twin Stack cars with the bulkheads, but they can handle containers longer than 40'.
 

Ted Curphey
Ontario, OR

Fizzboy7 Wrote:
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> Espeekiwi Wrote:
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> > Nice can anyone tell me when the 53' started on
> > intermodal? I am modelling the 1988-1990 period
> > thanks
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> > Jason
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> Roughly the early 90's.  1993 was when Schneider
> and others started going all out with the 53
> trailers.   JB Hunt followed soon after.

Yes, but 53' well cars took a bit longer to show up, more like 1997 or 1998.  There was at least five years when 53' containers would just ride in the upper position.

Nathan Beauheim
Cheyenne, WY

Espeekiwi Wrote:
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> Nice can anyone tell me when the 53' started on
> intermodal? I am modelling the 1988-1990 period
> thanks

Trailers were early to mid 1990's.  I believe the first 53' spine cars were built around '93 or '94.  The 53' well cars were mid-late 1990's.  As another poster indicated, even though there were quite a few 53' domestic containers in service, most were simply stacked on top of 48' well cars, and the dedicated 53' well cars didn't come until the mid-late 1990's.

I had asked a question about this a few months back in this forum, and someone had given me the exact year the Maxi IV's went into service.  Might be able to find that with a search.

dh1205 Wrote:
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> They are HO. They are in their Prime Mover line,
> which is their value line. 
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> Alec
Are they single unit, stand alone cars, or three unit cars?

single unit

...taking a close look at the picture taken at the dealer open house, the cars are stand alone 53' Husky stacks, one in CP and two in TTX... there are 8 container paint schemes being offered so far, 3 CN, and one each CP, BNSF, CSX, Schneider and JB Hunt...

cheers,

Lorne Miller, self confessed intermodal addict.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/25/16 15:52 by Espeenut.

Thank you!

Thanks for the answers guy they are to new for me then. I have got plenty of a-line cars to keep me busy. Be nice to have some well detailed but not have to give up you first born to buy 40' containers and trailers from the late eightys

thanks again
jason

Here's the shot. Bruce

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Walthers has released a 40' single well car, model of the 48' rebuilds, very nice model.

coaltrain45

coaltrain45 Wrote:
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> Walthers has released a 40' single well car, model
> of the 48' rebuilds, very nice model.
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> coaltrain45

Don't forget the Intermountain Twin Stack well cars - those held 40' containers.  I've got a couple of the red NYSW SeaLand and a yellow SP TT set. but it's for mid-late 1980's.  IMR also did some A-line Thrall 5 car sets which are 40' too.

Cheers, Jim Fitch