----- Original Message ----- From: kcookk Are any of the manufactures closer to producing a Five-Car Husky Stack?? . . . . . . . . Kevin --------Response----------- Kevin We know what you mean, but that is neither "5-car" nor a "Husky Stack." Greenbrier Gunderson, the manufacturer, reserves the term Husky Stack for stand-alone units. Stand-alone units can be single cars or can be draw-bar-connected, usually into three unit or five unit cars. Note that an assemblage of three or five units is ONE car. It has one reporting number and can only be switched as one car. So it's not five cars, it's one five-unit car.
The design of three or five of this type unit making up one car with ARTICULATED joints, that is, the end of each unit sharing one truck with the next unit (except at the ends) is called by Greenbrier Gunderson a Maxi-Stack. The "Maxi-Stack I" was a five unit car. The "Maxi-Stack IV" is a three-unit car and according to the manufacturer's web site is currently "the mainstay of the United States domestic double-stack car fleet." Learning this stuff doesn't come overnight, but there are some sources. The above comes primarily from the Greenbrier's site, which is http://www.gbrx.com/page.php?view=STACK_CARS Read it while you can; the TTX Company used to have related information available on their web site, but now it's restricted to "authorized personnel." There's also a yahoo group dedicated to intermodal railroading, real and model. It is http://groups.yahoo.com/group/modelintermodal/. And what little possibility there is for modelling modern stuff in S is discussed in this group - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SSTOT/?yguid=152716356. And in reply to your initial question, No, not likely. Tom Hawley -- Lansing Michigan Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
