O Scale Freight Car Guide: Intermodal Cars

@Jeff78rr posted:

Hi Rich, and thank you for the comments! I do run DPUs on this train, and the 2R trucks work perfectly. I like the 2R trucks as they allow the car to sit lower, as I can mount the truck closer to the bottom of the cars. My entire intermodal fleet is 2R truck-equipped as it looks so cool like this. I would definitely recommend getting some K-Line cars to articulate. However, in my opinion, the parts supplied from K-Line to do this make the cars so far apart it looks very unrealistic. Plus the car sit so high using their parts. I've got these cars sitting as low as the Atlas O Gunderson cars.

You run the 2R trucks on 3R track (based on your pictures)? How do they handle your turnouts?

I ask because I’ve thought about going with 2R trucks for cars I don’t have trucks for. 

I run 2R trucks on about 50% of my fleet and also use Ross custom turnouts, all with no issues. The 2R trucks navigate through all my turnouts without any problems. 

Just picked some of the new Atlas-O, 40', Refrigerated containers.

Seems like these were from new tooling. The doors don't open unlike the earlier 40' & 45' containers. It appears to me that the details on the non-functioning doors seem to have finer details now that they don't open.

The Blue Atlas packaging seems to be closer to the lighter shade from the boxes from the 2000's. I walked past these containers and a Coalveyor from the most recent run because the shade of the box misled me to think they were new-old-stock.

Also, I like that the boxes for these refrigerated containers are smaller than the boxes for the earlier 40' & 45' containers. I had 4 addresses in the last 4 years and I used to wish that the packaging for these model trains didn't take up so much space.

These are just my opinion,

Naveen Rajan