On this side of the north Atlantic the closest they get to anything like this is when a railroads police department is called to deal with trespassers.

If the container trains stop for long period’s they are subject to break ins and the thieves simply leave the doors open. If the class one or class two operating road is lucky enough a person seeing this will call the watts line number (1-800 number) that is attached to the cross bucks or crossing signals if they are in a municipality and report it.

As we no longer use a caboose for additional crew members on trains it just makes protecting the manifest freights that much harder and they are more vulnerable to having containers opened by thieves.

One issue is the container placement and access door direction as the containers are unable to be rotated to allow the doors to face each other to prevent them from be opened on the manifest trains if they are transporting only 20-foot container cubes.

The TTX well cars used do not have bulk heads. Depending on the model well car they may be the type that are extremely long well cars that carry 53-foot containers on them and loaded with smaller ones and their access doors are also exposed.

If the container cranes used for loading well cars were built with overhead turntables to allow the containers to be rotated the access doors could be placed facing each other and then make it much more difficult to break into them.

It would be possible to do with some ease as a turntable with a spur gear system like the ones used on crawler cranes and drag line cranes could be used for this with minor design changes.