Here's one from Scott Chatfield. He gets into the geographical aspect. Thanks
to Thorin for bringing up the containers and to Bob W for asking something I
had wondered about myself. Now, if we only had more intermodal equipment.
quote
Domestic boxes atop seacans happens all the time, especially the further you
come east from the Left Coast ports. The solid seacan trains tend to be loaded
on the docks, but as the trains move through intermediate terminals and some
seacans are removed they may be replaced by domestics moving east. Westbound,
all bets are off. And keep in mind it depends on the size car they're loaded
in. Now that cars with all-40' wells are common again, and the all-48s are
getting rare, you aren't going to see 53' domestics atop seacans as often,
because they will foul the adjacent well.
Wide Top Pick (WTP) domestic containers are generally not loaded atop seacans
because WTPs don't have ISO posts or sockets for interbox connectors. I gather
there exists an adapter that can connect the two styles but I can't recall
seeing one in use.
Of course, no 20s atop longer boxes because there's no way to connect the ends
of shorter boxes to the middle of the longer boxes. For that matter, you can't
put two 20s atop two 20s in the well, again no access to the IBC points in the
middle, and you'd probably overload the well. And many of the longer wells
can't have 20s in the middle wells (and will be marked as such).
Scott Chatfield
endquote
Tom Hawley
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