https://blog.model-train-help.com/2015/03/fewer-box-cars-on-railroads.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fewer-box-cars-on-railroads Model railroads and model trains Sun, 15 Mar 2015 19:29:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://blog.model-train-help.com/2015/03/fewer-box-cars-on-railroads.html#comment-8767 Sun, 15 Mar 2015 19:29:46 +0000 http://blog.model-train-help.com/?p=3501#comment-8767 Box cars are not out of date and there are a lot that come by Terre Haute Indiana. Box cars are now for more companies that have a place to deliver direct, such as auto parts and fruit and vegetables right to the door of the warehouse. Even some fruit and vegetables are now loaded straight to a container or trailer (Refrigerated of course) then shipped. Container traffic are used more for local deliveries where there are not tracks for deliveries and when a trailer or container is loaded the long distance loads are hauled to the container yards and loaded and will travel to the container yards they need to go to and be delivered from those over the road. Box Cars are by no means disappearing but are used more in direct deliveries and still for the money can haul much more per car than the containers of trailers would. Trailers also carry what would be a lesser amount than a box car would so for deliveries of lesser amounts sometimes containers and trailers are the way to go. (kind of like using a 4 X 4 box to ship something that needs a 1 X 1. Otherwise they would have to get delivered to a warehouse, loaded to a box car, and upon arrival the reverse would happen and that is labor intensive to load several times. That’s my thoughts and observations. You are not wrong to model multiple ways to ship these days. Box cars will be here for many years to come…. from Newman

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