Model Railroading > A "what if well car"

After reading some of the threads on this forum about starting on those projects, I started one that asked the question "What would that first well car look like when railroads got into the intermodal business?" So looking in my junk box I came up with a NYK Line container and an old UP gondola. With those two objects it was time to start cutting out sections of the gondola's sides with an X-Acto saw and this is what I came up with. There is still some miscellaneous tasks to be done but this was my fun project for a rainy day here in NJ. It is interesting at least in my mind and on this railroad this is what my initial well car looks like.

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Good job!

I have seen numerous gondolas pressed into COFC service, including a silver ATSF work train gon. There's a prototype for everything--just about.

I like it. I think I change the paint to make it a little bit more modern but ....I LIKE IT!!  ×   

Seems plausible....especially after seeing a number of containers haphazardly strapped onto flatbed highway trailers and trucks.

That's common in several other countries - China and Russia come to mind.