North American Container System - NACS, is a railway owned pool of domestic containers, a small number of 48' containers, but mostly 53' containers, that freely operate around North America (similar to TTX and Railbox). Originally it was owned by BN(SF) and CSX, but eventually everybody but UP joined. Its competition is the "EMP" container pool, originally owned by the UP and NS, later CP joined this pool. Most railroads have since decided to stop supplying containers and these two container pools will eventually disappear when the current inventory of containers are retired from damage and age.
Subject ID: 83404
MoreNorth American Container System - NACS, is a railway owned pool of domestic containers, a small number of 48' containers, but mostly 53' containers, that freely operate around North America (similar to TTX and Railbox). Originally it was owned by BN(SF) and CSX, but eventually everybody but UP joined. Its competition is the "EMP" container pool, originally owned by the UP and NS, later CP joined this pool. Most railroads have since decided to stop supplying containers and these two container pools will eventually disappear when the current inventory of containers are retired from damage and age.
Subject ID: 83404
Subject ID: 83404