Photos of new GTW CN NSC Intermodal cars

Trains Magazine General Discussion
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Here are two photos of new GTW CN National Steel Car Intermodal 53’ Well Cars headed East to Battle Creek, Michigan in a very fast freight train. They have GTW Grand Trunk Western reporting marks to make them international freight cars.

Andrew Falconer

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Lots of those three packs were brought to Durand by the Flint local. All were brand spanking new with nary a scratch on the paint. Where they went from there I don’t know.

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Do you have any reporting numbers to go with the GTW marks?

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Dan, the series is GTW 676000-676199. Send some down my way!

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There’s a good possibility that these might be used on the “new” Q117 (empty) and Q116 (load) trains from Roberts Bank, BC to Markham, IL. I’ll do what I can.

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Which intermodal terminals will these operate between on the CN system?

Will they be used everywhere on the CN system?

Andrew

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More images of a CN GTW 3-Unit Intermodal Container Car.

A DTTX single unit car with the same color scheme

Andrew

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Nice photos, been a while since I have been trainspotting. Might have to see what photos I have in my albums to post here.

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Still waiting to see one of these!

Our errands may take us in the vicinity of the west end of Clearing tomorrow, so I shall keep my fingers crossed.

As for those DTTX 888000-series cars, we haven’t been able to confirm their origin: they were definitely not new, though; the build dates were 1992. The best guess as to origin is that these single-unit cars are former CP three-unit drawbar-connected cars, divided up.

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Not a 100% certain about this , but on an Intermodal Forum, I monitor, there was some discussion, a while back, referencing a BNSF program rebuilding a number of 48’ well car sets to handle 53’ boxes.

IIRC one of the locations doing that rebuild program was a Progress Rail facility near Amarillo, Texas(?)

I know that I am seeing more and more of the 53 foot containers on what appear to be newly painted cars as I see on the COFC trains on the Transcon through this area.

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Update from a train a week ago.

These are new photos from another angle on a slower moving train.

comment on the new CN 53’ containers

Andrew Falconer

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I see them quite a bit on the CSX in atlanta