Thai ISO-flat rack for Japanese domestic container (1-150)

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The Japanese railways sticks out for its colourful intermodal transport with much of different domestic types of containers. These 6/10/12/15/30-foot containers seems to fit better to transport needs in Japan, than the large and heavy 20/40-foot ISO-containers. Together with the Koki-flat cars you may create multifaceted container trains you probably will never find anywhere else. A good description of the containers and flat cars you may find here: http://www.sumidacrossing.org/Prototype/JRFreight/FreightContainers/ http://www.sumidacrossing.org/Prototype/JRFreight/FreightCars/index.php#koki Here some video-impressions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DULSA5Sq9XA&t=0s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb7dAggenBA Japanese makers KATO and especially TOMIX/Tomytec offer a wide range of Koki-flatcars and containers. But it seems that not only Japanese railway found the smaller containers better fitting to Asian sites. The Thai railway at least tried to use the same containers as well. In order to transport domestic containers directly between Thailand and Japan, a special flat rack was created, making it possible to ship three domestic containers in a 40-foot ISO-container slot on any standard container ship. The original domestic containers are not fit for sea transport, as there light construction allows stacking in maximum two tiers. For modelling sources see here: https://jnsforum.com/community/topic/11820-jrf-in-thailand/ I found this an interesting aspect and decided to recreate this flat rack in n-gauge. Hope someone has use of it. Model sized for Japanese n-scale (1:150). ___ There is also a fine model of a 19D-container at thingiverse, designed by kureha: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4963504 I scaled it down to 1:150, but had to add a lot of strengthening, as the sides become hardly printable in the small scale. And I designed a snap-fit compatible to the TOMIX/Kato-snap fit, so that the DIY-containers can ride together on cars and wagons. Unfortunately kureha’s license terms don’t allow derivates, so I can’t publish this remix. However you may find the snap-fit-parts for download here, you may use, when creating your own remix/design of a JRF-container. By the way: Keep your soul clean - don’t collect or download things, you don’t like! ;-)