@cduckworth wrote:
Can a SME list what HO railcars models are good for moving a container? Sunshine Models did a couple gons and F&C has a panel gon. Who makes a flatcar that’s appropriate for these? Am sure these ran down the Bagnell Branch
I believe these only moved in local service. Were the T&P container facilities built to handle MP containers and vice versa?
The MoPac had some 50 flatcars that had an odd number of stake pockets (same as the Athearn car) but the side sill was tapered wrong that show up in some photos. Maybe the F&C gons are better.
TP also had their own Swamp Holly Orange smooth side containers and I’ve seen photos of the MoPac containers being unloaded near the large T&P warehouse in Fort Worth circa 1959. I also remember a mention in a Railway Age article that B&O was accepting MoPac containers and vice versa about 1958 but that was the only off line use I know of. PRR and Trailer Train pretty much ran nationwide.
Jim Ogden
