Western Railroad Discussion > BNSF 10,000 ft intermodal stack trains report

This report today from BNSF.com on the 10,000ft stack trains


http://www.bnsf.com/employees/communications/bnsf_today/2008/05/2008-05-15-a.html



gmojim

The BNSF story doesn't say how many container (40 foot or similar) these 10,000 foot long trains carry. My guess is about 250 container. Does anyone have any info?

I was in the Needles area a couple weeks back & counted 160 well cars on one train all double stacks.

Jack

The second part of the BNSF article is about the Pacific NW region which cites a high of 245 containers on an 8,000' train. That would put 300 to 310 containers on a 10,000' train. No idea if that is an actual count of containers or if it refers to Twenty Foot Equivilent Units aka TEU's the standard in Maritime shipping.

Last month, train S-LHACHI1-11 had aproxiamently 150 20' containers, 230 40' containers, and 30 45 containers for just over 400 total. It was 10,000+ feet with power and just over 10,000 tons.

Scoopcat Wrote:
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> The second part of the BNSF article is about the
> Pacific NW region which cites a high of 245
> containers on an 8,000' train. That would put 300
> to 310 containers on a 10,000' train. No idea if
> that is an actual count of containers or if it
> refers to Twenty Foot Equivilent Units aka TEU's
> the standard in Maritime shipping.

Ignoring TEU's, you can get roughly 300 standard domestic or int'l containers on a 10K train.