Other miscellaneous non-standard containers:
ABSU 1000037. View of the other side. End view. Looks to be roughly 6'-0" long. Type code 5876. (Photos by Hans Tobbe)
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)
Conex Containers / U.S. Military 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)
More old Conex boxes. (Photo by Matt Hannes)
The U.S. military still uses modern versions of the Conex boxes that have the capability of being coupled together in modules for transport with standard ISO containers. Here are two examples of these: USAU Conex module example 1, USAU Conex module example 2. Here are a few more examples of specialized modular containers used by the U.S. military: USAU 0334320 and 0334356, USAU 0334567 and 0334510, USAU 0334593 and 0334628. (USAU photos by Paul Ziemba)
Here are a few examples of modern 6-foot ISO-style containers connected together to make 20-foot modules. USAU 7438202-7435055-7438990, USAU 7438183-7436386-7438373. (Photos by Matt Hannes)
Here are some more modular containers which are used to house field electronics. The auxiliary HVAC modules are for cooling of the equipment. M29078 side view, M75240 view 1 and view 2, HVAC equipment, data plate. (Photos by Charles Fox)
Coil Rack Containers
These are specialized coil steel racks that can be inserted into standard 20-foot containers to allow transport of steel coils. Photos courtesy of Hans Tobbe and www.autocontainers.com.
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?
European Lift-Vans
These were an early forerunner to intermodal containers in Europe.
Two Vandergoten lift-vans: example 1, example 2. (Photos by Yvan Joos)
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