| In the early days of stack trains, the cars and boxes were largely owned by the steamship lines, and run under contract. TTX and individual railroads had yet to make significant presence in the car fleet. As a result, APL boxes rode on APL stack cars, Sea Land on Sea Land cars(with NYSW reporting marks), etc. So it was quite unusual to find this situation, Sea Land containers in an APL well car. Here it is, on SLN 4 at the north end of East Binghamton yard. This photo also serves to show the difference in 40 and 45 foot containers. Note the frame posts are 40 feet apart, with the larger size accommodated by extending the box on either side of the 40 foot posts. That way, all sizes can stack. |