Canadian Railroads > Looking for an Intermodal Flatcar type ID

Yesterday's CN 430 had a block of 5 or 6 newish spine-type intermodal flatcars loaded with four 20' containers (Picture #1). It's been years since I last saw this type of car/cargo. From my vantage point, no reporting marks were visible. Does anyone know what kind of cars these might be?

Picture #2 shows the train (location: Ville St-Pierre, Montreal).

Ray   

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They look to be second-hand containers belonging to maybe AMEU? Couldn't find that reporting mark anywhere. Or maybe AHEU, but can't find that either. Also can't exactly see the hazardous placard but it looks to start with maybe 168. If you have any other pictures of the containers it could give us more clues

AMEU is the container reporting mark. I only took this one picture.

TO contributor PHall had an early response to this thread (since deleted) in which he thought the spine cars were designed for trash container service. I think this is correct, as I found a picture of what may be the same type of car once stored on the Batten Kill Railroad:

http://photos.nerail.org/showpic/?photo=2015032007561623392.jpg&order=byrail&page=1&key=Battenkill 

Ray

p.s. the placard is indeed 168 (with a small 6 at the bottom).



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/12/25 18:41 by Ray_Murphy.