The Rise of Container Trains

containers are fun, they are cool rectangles

It's a boxcar, but the box and the car are seprate now

It is important to remember that there are two kinds of intermodal traffic. North America excels in long-haul shipping, with many containers going from a port on one ocean to a port on another ocean. Japan, Europe, and especially the British Isles, intermodal is a short-haul operation from port to trucking terminal. The average Japanese freight shipment is about six miles! -- From truck to port, and that's it. That's one reason Freightliner was less successful than Dr. Beeching & Co. promised, and why passenger service dominates the British Isles.

5:36 don't forget that india not just run double stack trains on flatbed but also electrified it

Didn’t know amtrakguy365 was a truck and ship youtuber

I love your thumbnails

I like how we all just agreed on a standard box for shipping things in, it's rather convenient.

As an Italian, I can confirm intermodal trains are pretty much everywhere. (Even on my local line before a landslide struck)

1:05 "Or lorry, depending on how British your feeling." As someone who's developed a British accent in recent years, don't mind if I do! I've actually been using container trucks in my Thomas videos for quite a while now, and those flatbeds are now the most common modern truck to be featured on my goods train consists.

Duuude fun fact: containers were actually developed by

Early Locomotives: Nah, I’d Win Now locomotives, trucks, and boats:🤝🤝🤝 We deliver

Intermodals (or pig trains as we like to call em) are also some of the most desirable jobs for railcrews. Because you usually just get on double up the train and ride for a few hours without hardly stopping. Every other train and dispatcher knows you dont stop a pig train because outside other bulk commodity trains those are the ones that make the big money

Intermodal containers are greatly efficient. They're quite convenient too. Thanks for documenting the intermodal part of railways.

They don't mean we still can't electrify the American mainline. Just build the wires higher up!

Every day I always see a Pacific national freight train passing by my hometown in Australia

5:38 those F40's are awesome looking!

Wish he had mention the upchallenger catch with the intermodal train

Norfolk Southern.

1:06 or “Horrid Lorry” more like

@AmtrakGuy365 this is one of my new favorite video that you have made!!!