Freight Load
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Can Someone Explain the Tall Blue Freight Containers I saw on Flatcars?
They had to have been around 16' tall. There were a huge number of them, and it might have been a unit train. They were loaded two to a flat car.
I'm familiar with the standard freight containers that can be anywhere from 20' to 48' long and are 8' tall. These were twice the normal height, and there was no company name visible.
Many large cities are now shipping garbage to a central dumping point that is approved for general waste, hazardous material and just about everything except for radioactive materials.
The ones I have handled are indeed large blue, unmarked containers on flat cars or well cars, and are unit trains, many of which are headed for Hanford, Washington, from the large cities in the western regions of the US.
This would be my guess as to what you saw, since you stated they were not the average containers usually seen in day to day operations.