What is Intermodalism? (Part 1) How Railroads Work
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Hello, from Canada. Thanks for this. It has been very educational.
Thanks for watching!
Thank you for showing some of the nuts and bolts of Intermodalism. Excellent video AC.
No problem 👍
malcon mclean started intermodal ,he was the founder of mclean trucking company which started seaway which hauked the 1st containers way back when,not anybody overseas they just copyed it
Hey AC, Great video. I drive local for an LTL here in Buffalo and we do several containers out of NS Bison yard. Last few times, the pickings have been slim on empties. Our company has ramped up its intermodal usage since last year. Using containers and piggy backs for anything past Chicago.
Keep up the awesome work and take care.
Thanks for watching Chris and for delivering America. I remember the days both fondly and not-so much.
Hey AC, I’ve been working on some fictional railroads lately and contemplating some ideas, but not sure how feasible they would be. Seeing as you seem to be knowledgeable on the subject I figured I’d ask here.
Say there’s a railroad, probably a larger class II, connecting multiple small-ish towns with one larger city somewhere on the line. The small towns have industry but are driven away from the railroad because trucks are simply cheaper. Would it make sense for the railroad to open container trans load points in the small towns, using their own containers, to attract smaller customers? Containers would be railroad-owned, eliminating the problem of shipping lines not liking their stuff disappearing into the inland of a country. Shippers with smaller industries could use 20’ containers as to not use a 50’ boxcar and waste all that space. The containers could be sent to the big city that the class II runs to, and assuming it has a large enough intermodal facility, shuffled into the mix and sent on domestic stack trains to wherever it needs to go.
So I’m asking for your thoughts, do you think this is a good idea, or “reinventing the wheel” and too much of a complex alternative to traditional boxcars for less high priority freight? Any input is appropriated!!
-Cassandra
I don't fully understand your idea, but it does seem to have merit. Why do you ask? Is it just for a video game?
1) There is a video explaining how the major railroads in America plus a Canadian company formed a leasing company that produced its own cars. The companies then leased them as needed. This allowed them to worry less about producing enough cars, and it also allowed the cars to be empty less often. By extension, there would be less of a need for storing empty cars.
2) A lot of smaller railways would be better off if they had access to longer routes to increase the demand for short trips. I believe that if they had their own cars and tracks, and if the customers also had the same, then we have a better world.
I like your videos and more importantly you explain what's going on, thanks!
Thanks for watching!
Thanks AC another great instructive Video.
3 caws. Crow didn’t like you being there.😊
Just monitoring the RR freight container traffic will give you a great idea of the health of the economy. Just watch that Ft Madison crossing and you will know what the pulse of the economy is. Great vid!
That was a great one. You did some great filming on them coming across the Rockville Bridge. My grandfather worked for the Reading at Hershey. He fastened tractor trailer loads to the intermodal flats. That was back in the early 1960s. He called them piggy backs.
Many thanks!
Some really great information here. Thanks as always!
Glad it was helpful!
I love this one, its the way the world moves, and especially our lovely 🇺🇸 USA.
That train with 3 locomotives at about 19:34 --- I can't believe just 3 locomotives pulled that entire train (which seemed to take 7 minutes to pass by). How is that possible? I would've expected a couple of DPUs in the middle and maybe one in the rear.
It depends on tons per powered axle on the locomotive
Ur insight on the grain industry and empty containers (and the reasons) was amazing and its cool to have learned that!!!! Right now the Silk Road is having trouble with trade and their is a lot of curruption as China is paying 5 million dollars a train car substaty and they are finding there are almost whole trains going to Europe with no goods in them and the imbalance is bad for multiple other reasons, some may be simular to your grain example!!!
Do what??
I sure can’t find any evidence of 5 mil per car Substaty or any statys at all for that matter. Sub or Primb. Even on the floating trains that go to Europe. Good Christ. I’ve never seen a logistics expert think an empty anything goes to Europe. They would abandon it first. Stop making things up like that. Some kid might buy in to it and flunk basic economics.
Largest Container Ship in the World can hold 24,000 Shipping Containers. That’s approximately 120 trains with 100 Double Stacked = 200 Containers. WOW! 🤔👍
That 24 000 is measured in TEU
(20ft) Twenty foot Equivalent Unit
Typically goods are transfered in 40-48-53ft containers
I was gonna change vids right b4 u said "Are u confused yet?" Because i was confused
Yeah, I was confused, too. I had lost interest, but I gained it again, thankfully.
I've read the book "The Box" by Marc Levinson (sadly a difficult read that could have done with better editing) about how the shipping container came to be - and it fascinated me.
This RUclips video is an excellent further insight, you are to be commended. I'd honestly never thought about back shipments and not considered it could be grain. I'm wondering what we in Europe send back to the far east?
It also fascinates me that on some US railroads, you double stack containers, we have a much lower loading gauge, forced by bridges and overhead power supply lines. If you have the patience here's a video I put up of "The Tesco Train" ruclips.net/video/JFHgzsUeUTk/видео.html this is a daily service for the Tesco supermarket chain and runs about 300 miles (at up to 75mph) with, usually 38 X 20 foot containers. I've always assumed they are "stuffed" in the English midlands and transported to central Scotland and individually transported by road to stores, but maybe I'm whimsycal? Other parts of the UK have their own "Tesco Trains" certainly there is no sea trip involved
Carry on the good work.
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PS the locomotive in my videoe takes electric power from the overhead wires but can switch to the Caterpillar, Lafayette, Indiana built diesel engines if needs be.
Thanks David, I'll check your video out just as soon as I possibly can.
Hey it's" Working Wednesday" I had to do that AC after Sunday
Never a problem Donald. Glad to see that you're still on board this train.
@@Trains21 Been with your channel since it started always enjoy the content keep it up brother
NS is in big Trouble Now How are they going get out of this
Not trying to talk to much (don't know if you watch ur own video comments) but the long section showing the train carrying cargo. I would have made a statement about how trucks are to trains as what trains are to ships. I'm going to play threw this whole train to show you just how much one train can carry and from there tell you that (how many of these trains) it would take to fill a whole container ship... The next generation of container ships are set to get larger; a trend that will continue with every forseable generation of container carrying container ships. Note that not every train carrying cargo is nearly this long... that would have ate much of the space up as the train passed... lol IN BETWEEN AND WHILE TALKING U COULD BUST OUT THE TURNTABLES AND GET A GOOD SCRATCH SESSION IN!!!! lol
I’m sure the professional will take your instructions to heart. Have a good scratch session with your butt crabs on your own time.
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ChainsawN&W1218, IM ships and trains do transport everything and I know the open well cars are articulated about 3 cars before a coupler,I think they call those Gantry cranes that unload the containers from the well cars,great video AC!🇺🇲🛤🚂👍