Other miscellaneous non-standard containers:
Conex box USA 281423. Conex containers such as these were used by the U.S. military in the 1950s and 1960s. They came in 6' and 8' versions. Several steamship companies also experimented with containers very similar to Conex boxes. (Photo by Michael McGowen)
NEW! More old Conex boxes. (Photo by Matt Hannes)
HAKU baby containers. These look to be about 8'-0" in length, 8'-0" wide, and probably 8'-6" tall. Owned by Container Company Amsterdam. (Photo by Hans Tobbe)
PFEL 4008. This early aluminum container is probably an 8'-0" unit. Formerly owned by Pacific Far East Line. (Photo by Michael McGowen)
This is an early States Steamship Company sea container (view 1, view 2), probably built circa 1960 and now heavily rusted. It appears to be less than 20' long. Before 1965 there were no standard container dimensions, so it was not uncommon in this time period to have odd container sizes. (Photo by Michael McGowen)
This appears to be some kind of pressurized gas-tube container. It is definitely longer than 20', maybe 24' or 30'. So it's pretty strange. The reporting marks are CP 8401. (Photo by Ed McCaslin)
Vestas Wind Systems Wind Mill Blade containers
These specialized containers are designed to carry long wind mill blades and are used around Europe. They can be attached together for hauling the oversize blades then folded into 40' units for the empty return trip.
Assembled Vestas wind mill blade container (49 meters long). (Photo by Lorenz Olff)
Empty (folded up into 40' units) wind mill blade containers. (Photo by Jose Manuel Almeida)
The following series of pictures shows some assembled Vestas containers loaded with wind mill blades. These photos are courtesy of Jose Manuel Almeida:
Weight Capacity Markings and Reporting Marks
Weight Capacity Markings and Reporting Marks
Santa Fe's "A-Stack" containers
Back in the early 1980s, Santa Fe experimented with a handful of specialized containers designed to carry grain and other bulk commodities in one direction, and general merchandise in the other. The result was the A-Stack, which got its name from the A-shaped cross section. Well, the A-Stack idea never really worked, and the A-Stack containers were scrapped or used as MOW storage units, like the one shown below in Riverside, CA.
Alberta Wheat Pool GrainTainers:
I don't know a whole lot about Alberta Wheat Pool's experimental GrainTainers other than they're not in use anymore. I can't tell the dimensions - they look to be 30 or 35 feet long, 8 feet wide, and 10 feet tall.
Alberta Wheat Pool Graintainer web page at Jonn's Site of Railway Equipment.
A Maltainer container. (Photo by Alan Morris)
Looks similar to the Alberta Wheat Pool Graintainers. Anyone know any history of these?
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