garbage train - Trains Magazine

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Be interesting to see if they're cutting the containers down to the Indian 'dwarf container' height to get the double-stack clearance.

How much additional clearance is needed when the containers come back double-stacked empty?

Sea cans are not as high as domestic boxes.  Double stacked sea cans measure out at 19' 6" I believe.  Domestic double stacks measure out at 20'6".

Double stack sea cans can clear CSX's Howard Street tunnel, double stack domestic cans can't.

Shipments of municipal trash from major metropolitan area has been taking place for decades.

Watching trash shipments passing the Dispatching Office at Baltimore when I was working - most were double stacked 'miniture' containers - roughly 20 feet long and 6 feet high - double stacked.