On the topic of Shipping Containers.
Sept 25, 2021 16:59:09 GMT -8
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Post by trainboyy on Sept 25, 2021 16:59:09 GMT -8
Instead of clogging up the Athearn thread I'd rather just make a new one to make a "list" per-se of all types of containers that we want/need for HO scale. OO/N scale (C-Rail/Jacksonville Terminal Company respectively) can be brought up just to show that models of certain companies already exist in other scales except HO.
Let's start with the few I mentioned in the Athearn thread:
Tiphook (OO/N available, Athearn Bluebox HO, barely available) - very common from 80's to mid-90's when they were bought out, could show up in the 2000s too. Owned 20's and 40's.
OCL (20ft needed, 40ft is an Athearn pre-order) - common from 70's(?) thru late 80's, absorbed by P&O
Cronos (walthers makes 45', 40' and 20' needed) - early 80's to now - very common still nowadays!
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines - 40ft with single panel needed, I don't believe anyone's ever made a single-panel 40' container. The only ones I'm aware of have panels on both ends instead of just one. These are roughly late 80s to 2010s (getting rarer by the day)
Transamerica Leasing (with the tower logo thing, 40fts needed, Walthers has 20fts covered I believe) - good for late 80's(?) thru 2000s, could show up nowadays as trash containers
Atlantic Container Line - 1970s to now, really depends on what specific container is made. Old smooth sides are good for the 70s, but only some kept them thru the 80's and into the 90's (MOL and APL come to mind.)
corrugated-side ACL container ^
One more bonus container, how about Alianca? (yes I spelled it Alancia initially) I know nothing about this company, but it looks like it could fit into the 90's thru 2000's (?)
It's time for me to open the floodgates. I'd like to see what you guys come up with.
Let's start with the few I mentioned in the Athearn thread:
Tiphook (OO/N available, Athearn Bluebox HO, barely available) - very common from 80's to mid-90's when they were bought out, could show up in the 2000s too. Owned 20's and 40's.
OCL (20ft needed, 40ft is an Athearn pre-order) - common from 70's(?) thru late 80's, absorbed by P&O
Cronos (walthers makes 45', 40' and 20' needed) - early 80's to now - very common still nowadays!
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines - 40ft with single panel needed, I don't believe anyone's ever made a single-panel 40' container. The only ones I'm aware of have panels on both ends instead of just one. These are roughly late 80s to 2010s (getting rarer by the day)
Transamerica Leasing (with the tower logo thing, 40fts needed, Walthers has 20fts covered I believe) - good for late 80's(?) thru 2000s, could show up nowadays as trash containers
Atlantic Container Line - 1970s to now, really depends on what specific container is made. Old smooth sides are good for the 70s, but only some kept them thru the 80's and into the 90's (MOL and APL come to mind.)
corrugated-side ACL container ^
One more bonus container, how about Alianca? (yes I spelled it Alancia initially) I know nothing about this company, but it looks like it could fit into the 90's thru 2000's (?)
It's time for me to open the floodgates. I'd like to see what you guys come up with.
