Double-stack unit train container service: its commercial impact and value to the military skipper

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Bernhardt, Karl-Heinz
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1986-12Advisor
Boger, Dan C.
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Mehay, Stephen L.
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Double-stack container train service was successfully introduced in 1984 and has
expanded rapidly since. The newly designed five-platform articulated well railroad car
serves as the vehicle. Space-age computer-assisted design has helped to engineer a
radical departure fi-om conventional railcar configuration and produce significant
weight and rolling resistance reductions. Commensurate with introduction of this new
generation of equipment, the ocean carriers and railroads have developed new
cooperative train scheduling procedures and container railcar handling methods.
Additionally, the higher volume of containers per stack train has forced a redesign of
railyards and marine terminals. Opportunities for unique military application of stack
train technology and possible container rate reductions await the military transporter.
The expedient maturation of stack train technology has provided an early opportunity
for a thorough review of its development, the impact upon the containerized freight
industry, and the stack trains' potential value to the military.
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