Western Railroad Discussion > Flatbed Containers in Bottom Well

On Trainorders, there has been some discussions about flatbed containers used in double stack service with accompanying photos of those containers in the top position.  Some very understandable skepticism was stated about such containers being in the bottom well with a regular container atop it.  Well, I've finally gotten some photos of that practice as I saw two trains on the Cajon Sub this past weekend with such configurations.  As you can see, it's pretty wild looking!  The loads in these particular flatbed containers are relatively large, so the effect of them being on the bottom and the top container "floating along" is diminished somewhat, but you can still get a sense as to how strange it looks!

-Tom



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/20/15 10:13 by zchcsse.

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Very interesting.  Thanks for the photos.

Strange indeed!! Here in the east, I see them the other way around.

Regardless of how it looks, the load-bearing structure of a freight container is the box frame, not the sheet metal walls.

Ray