Container Yard Action

[bill937ca]

 

 

 

 

[disturbman]

Thanks Bill, your timing is perfect. I was actually thinking about how I could design a container yard.  :)

[SONIC883_de]

OT: Some Infos about the accesories

 

Tomix build the small Forklifters

 

For the bigger container there are some brass kits

http://www.ndetail.de/modellbahn/de/forklifter.html

http://www.ndetail.de/modellbahn/de/reachstacker.html

 

Manybe a littlebit miss-sized because 1:160

20ft Container Kit

http://www.ndetail.de/modellbahn/de/container-20-fuss.html

 

40ft Container Kit

http://www.ndetail.de/modellbahn/de/container-40-fuss.html

[bill937ca]

Thanks Bill, your timing is perfect. I was actually thinking about how I could design a container yard.  :)

 

Your welcome.  I'm planning a small container scene too, so this was interesting.

[bikkuri bahn]

Thanks for posting.  I wasn't aware of this freight station, the Sagami Freight Station, located near Hiratsuka Station on the Tokaido Line in Kanagawa Prefecture. This facility has five tracks dedicated to container traffic (loading/unloading), two of which extend into the freight shed.  Here is the aerial view:

 

http://wikimapia.org/#lat=35.3233366&lon=139.3317568&z=18&l=7&m=b

 

Here is a EF210 with a 24 car container up freight passing the station:

 

A couple of HD videos from the Japanese video hosting service Zoome.  First one is notable because it shows an uncommon (and in this case, rather smoky) DE11 diesel doing the honors with shunting container flats:

 

http://zoome.jp/robasan/diary/43

 

The second has the DE11 starting up, and gives a nice view of the container facility and the freight station office from the south end, and a bonus 215 series at the end:

 

http://zoome.jp/robasan/diary/52