Maxi Stack IV 3-Car Articulated Well Car....a colossal success if someone produced!!!

I would pre order all of these if announced

I would also order these!

I think Atlas should do them. They made great gundersons and now they should make these

Yes, either these Gunderson, Trinity, or NSC 53' articulated well cars!

Although there appears to be a glut of container cars, in general, by each manufacturer, a set like this that allowed for all the different sized containers with inserts or internal adjustments if necessary would be desirable.

However, if the trend continues, as it has this will be another incongruous set that fits a specific manufacturers' container sizes and no one else's.

That would not be desirable!

too bad the manufacturers don't just make everything "scale". It would then be no question that all would fit no matter whose cars you were using. I'll keep dreaming...

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Although there appears to be a glut of container cars, in general, by each manufacturer,

WHAT GLUT?

Maybe in the 027 world but for the Scale guys not much! I can't find too many of the MTH Premier ones out there.
The Atlas O Gunderson cars are slowly and surely going...going...going... GONE!

The scale K-line 40' cars are tough to find[ that's the scale THRALL cars NOT the incorrect Gunderson cars[ sans TTX markings since TTX has cut down thier 48' to 40']

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too bad the manufacturers don't just make everything "scale". It would then be no question that all would fit no matter whose cars you were using. I'll keep dreaming...

Jeff Sohn

AGREED! These Proprietary games played are pathetic!

Keep up the good fight boys....I give up.

I have sent emails, made phone calls, Facebook messages, started long forum posts regarding intermodal, for the better part of the last 5-6 years, with no success.

7-UP Hoppers and M&M boxcars???.... no problem. Modern intermodal cars seen on the real railroads EVERYDAY....FORGET ABOUT IT.

Frank, I pass the torch to you.

All Atlas needs to do is take their HO tooling and make it O scale. Boom! Done! Problem Solved! Make it for sale! Make money! Make everyone happy!

Good Day,

Check out what I posted on the Lionel LLC Facebooks page. Please add comments to the post to help support new 21st Century Intermodal cars!!!

Regards,
Swafford

http://www.facebook.com/photo....nel-LLC/135645573344

Can't tell from the drawings. Are those the 3x53? I'd love to see those done. I'd also like to see a run of 5x40 and/or 5x48 sets done. I think Jeff Sohn re-worked five MTH husky stacks into a 5x40.

Hi Matt!! I re-worked the 5 MTH husky stacks into the 5x48, which are really cool. They ride as low, or lower than the Lionel husky stacks, which do ride nice and low. Makes for super cool train.

Good Day Matt,

Yes, the Gunderson Maxi Stack IV 3-Car Articulated Well Car is configured with 3x53’ cars.
These cars can accommodate 20’, 40’, 53’ and 57’ containers. I’d really like to see these produced.

http://www.gbrx.com/files/file.../StackCarsMaxiIV.pdf

Regards,
Frank

Click on the link below and then click on the drawing for a larger and more detailed view.
http://ogaugerr.infopop.cc/gro...F3764825ECFEEFE2.GIF

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Originally posted by Jeff78rr:
Hi Matt!! I re-worked the 5 MTH husky stacks into the 5x48, which are really cool. They ride as low, or lower than the Lionel husky stacks, which do ride nice and low. Makes for super cool train.

How about a "How To" on that conversion. I've avoided the husky stacks because I wasn't really interested in single units. Would still love to see a 3x53.

I'd buy a bunch of these too. And thanks Frank for keeping the need for these and other kinds of intermodal cars in view.

I bought my last stand alone well car several years ago. I just am not going to buy them any more. Period. It is a less common prototype. As it is, I have five set aside to go to Jeff or Maxi III conversion (i.e., into a five-car articulated set) when he can work the project in. (The same is true for spine cars -- I'm not buying unprototypical two car sets in fantasy paint).

I see MTH will initiate some kind of program to formalize customer input. It's not clear if that's simply picking roadnames for existing models or whether its a place to urge new ones. If the latter, intermodal modellers need to make their voices heard.

RM

Good Day,

I'm ready for 21st Century Intermodal. Innovation and technology has always caught my eyes. Who will be the fist O Scale Model Train company to start thinking...................21st Century!

I'm ready to buy when they supply!

Regards,
Swafford

sign me up for these! We've got to keep trying to get someone to make 'em.

Good Day,

Who will be the fist O Scale Model Train company to start thinking...................21st Century!

I'm ready to buy when they supply!

Regards,
Swafford

Frank thanks for keeping this one going. One of these days some mfg will wake up and see the advantage of producing what the customer is wanting.

As an 'HO' modeler who is converting to 3RS I can tell you it is a shame what is avaliable in HO compared to O ... But what is really upsetting is what BNSF Mike says ... the silence from the manufacturers ... nothing not even a hint that they might be thinking about it !!!

An O Scale Gunderson MAXI-STACK III and IV 3-UNIT articulated well car for containers and trailers are what is missing.

Specifically needed for the intermodal trains on the CN/GTW:

KANSAS CITY SOUTHERN
KCS 9001-9100 Gunderson Maxi-Stack All Purpose Container cars.

100 total
3-Unit - 48' Wells TOFC/COFC

Built 5/96


Thanks.

Andrew

Falcon Service

This one time, a company listened to us intermodal guys and they finally made what we have been asking for for years... then I woke up

They will make it, it just takes a few decades, like the MILWAUKEE ribbed side box cars and the Pullman-Standard 4750 3-Bay Covered Hoppers. It is a matter of making the cars from the 1940's-1970's first.

Andrew

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Originally posted by falconservice:
They will make it, it just takes a few decades, like the MILWAUKEE ribbed side box cars and the Pullman-Standard 4750 3-Bay Covered Hoppers. It is a matter of making the cars from the 1940's-1970's first.

Andrew

Problem with that is, at 61, I do not have a few decades left and I also have little interest in anything (other than streamline passenger cars) older than about a rolling decade.

Richard

By the time these ever get made (I'm 65)I'll be in a nursing home LOL. I like running new modern freight cars and ES44AC's, AC6000's and the like to show what modern railroading is today. Now if you want M&M cars of which bnsfmike21 pointed out you are in luck. On the other hand maybe the interest is just not out there for the mfgs to make them, could that be the problem? They seem to make and sell enough of the modern rail power like the ES44AC and etc. so why not the freight they were intended to be used for. Sometimes i just don't understand the thinking of the mfgs sometime.

Dave

The marketing people at Lionel and MTH have to produce a more complete line of modern Intermodal well cars, spine cars, and containers that is added to as often as the locomotives of the same time period.

Intermodal equipment changes very quickly.

They need two catalogs a year of only new Intermodal releases.

Andrew

Falcon Service

Good Day,

I'm ready to buy when they supply!

Regards,
Swafford

I would be in for all the TTX cars and probably the Pacers. Just tell me where to send the check...

Good Day,

 

Who will be the first model train company to offer the Max-Stack IV this year?

 

Any rumors?

 

Regards,

Swafford

Just tell me where to mail the check.  I say this every time someone posts up modern intermodal cars, and I mean it.  

 

Sadly, I have come to the conclusion that there are certain things that you have to model in HO if you are serious about it.  At present, modern intermodal is one of those things.  I know there are guys that have done a pretty great job assembling O gauge intermodal - there are some real masterpieces out there.  But, if you just want to buy and run long intermodal freights without the hassle, try HO.  I still have a mix of Atheran and Walthers HO intermodal cars; some are stand-alone and some are articulated.  They all run together  and the containers are all interchangeable.  I also still have a set of spine cars that I used to run in the consist and it all worked great together.  I think I probably had $300 in the cars and the containers, and it made for a nice train.  It was easy, and I had lots of choices.  In truth, this is almost the ONLY thing I miss about HO.  

Good Day,

 

Who will be the first model train company to offer the Max-Stack IV this year? Perhaps this would be a good project for Golden Gate Depot!

 

Regards,

Swafford