SLHTS Intermodal Drawings

Soo Line Flatcars and Piggyback Trailers All artwork copyright 1996-1998 Rick Johnson/Soo Line Historical and Technical Society. All rights reserved. Artwork may be downloaded for personal use, but may not be distributed to others without permission. Click on any of the thumbnails to see the artwork in HO scale. SD40 & SD40-2 \| U30C \| GP9
Intermodal flat cars This group of flat cars will be covered in a future issue of the SOO.
	These Bethelehem cars weathered to a near black
	These Bethlehem cars were the only white Soo Line intermodal flats, designed to carry mobile homes built at Marshfield, Wisconsin
	These Pullman-Standard cars were purchased in 1963, and this became the standard paint scheme for all TOFC and COFC flats until the late 1970s
	This 1979 repaint reflects the condensed reporting marks used on other equipment
	This 1980 repaint reverts back to reporting marks used in the late 1960s and early 1970s
Soo Line Piggyback Trailers This artwork and the article that accompanies it appears in the spring and summer 2000 issues of the SOO. All artwork copyright 1996-2001 Rick Johnson/Soo Line Historical and Technical Society. Click on any of the thumbnails to see the artwork in HO scale.
Maroon-era (1950s)
	Twenty-five foot trailers operated in the early 1950s by Gross Common Carrier for Soo Line LCL service were lettered for the Soo Line, although they probably never actually rode atop a piggyback flat
	Probably the first piggyback trailers were these 25-footers acquired in 1955, which were placed two each on specially rebuilt 50-foot flats.
	The Soo Line's first 40-foot trailers were delivered in 1958
	Flatbed trailers were acquired in 1959 to transfer steel from Duluth to Whirlpool Corporation at St. Paul
	These fluted aluminum trailers marked the last of the 1950s-style graphics
Red-and-White-era (1960s-1980s) This locomotive series was covered in the spring 1997 issue of the SOO, and included a poster with colored drawings of six Soo Line GP9s.
	In the early 1960s, the Soo Line began applying a variation of the new red and white locomotive paint scheme to piggyback trailers, such as these refrigerated units
	Signboards fastened to aluminum trailers soon became the norm
	These colorful refrigerated trailers appeared in late 1972, many of which were used to carry foods from the Minnesota-North Dakota Red River Valley
	A good number of conventional as well as various types of open-top and drop-frame trailers were delivered in 1972
	Later trailers in this series dropped the red-and-gold piggyback emblem
	The "speedlettering" emblem of 1974 was applied to trailers, as well
	White trailers with a red decal were leased in the early 1980s
	Some people claim to have seen all-red trailers like this one in the mid-1980s, but photos are needed for a magazine article--please let me know if you have photographed one!
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