Specific Item Information: Road Numbers: XYLU #817789 5 / 818007 6 / 818339 4
Prototype History: The 40 foot container is the king of the container business. It is the most common standard container size used for international and domestic shipping. Most intermodal operations that handle overseas shipping are optimized for this container size. These containers are typically reinforced for loading, unloading and transportation by ship.
Dry containers are meant for non-refrigerated goods and hence are the most common type.
Dry containers are meant for non-refrigerated goods and hence are the most common type.
Road Name History: Hede (Hong Kong) International Shipping Co., Ltd. is an international shipping company invested and established in Hong Kong by Tangshan Port Hede Shipping Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Tangshan Port Industrial Group Co., Ltd. (International Liner Qualification Certificate No. MOC-ML00319), and is engaged in international container liner business. The company has a shipping team of experienced and skilled professionals, holds the entrepreneurship of "to win trust with action and development with trust", and wholeheartedly provides customers safe, rapid, accurate and value-added international container shipping services.
Tangshan Port Industry Group Co., Ltd., a wholly-owned holding company and a municipal key enterprise of Tangshan incorporated on the basis of Jingtang Port Authority and subordinate to Tangshan SASAC, is located in Tangshan Harbor Economic Development Zone and has the business covering ports, logistics, water affairs, investment, development and other sectors. Tangshan Port is the address of "a great northern port" proposed by Mr. Sun Yat-sen in The General Plan of National Construction, and Tangshan Port Industrial Group is a pioneer in the development of Tangshan Port.
As a key unit of the shipping sector of Tangshan Port Group, the parent company Tangshan Port Hede Shipping Co., Ltd is mainly engaged in the operation of domestic and foreign trade container routes. Thereof, the Bohai-ring branch routes reach the ports such as Panjin, Jinzhou, Suizhong, Qinhuangdao, Tianjin, Huanghua, Weifang and Longkou, the trunk routes reach the ports such as Shanghai, Taicang, Jiangyin, Nanjing, Zhapu, Ningbo, Wenzhou, Fuzhou and Nansha and the foreign trade routes reach such as Busan and Pyeongtaek of South Korea, Kanto, Kansai and Kyushu of Japan.Vietnam Ho Chi Minh City, Thailand Linchaban route. Cooperate with Shanghai Port and Guangzhou Port to jointly open the Tangshan Port Shanghai Guangzhou route, realizing international routes connecting multiple ports around the world such as Southeast Asia, the Middle East, India and Pakistan, and the United States.
Tangshan Port Industry Group Co., Ltd., a wholly-owned holding company and a municipal key enterprise of Tangshan incorporated on the basis of Jingtang Port Authority and subordinate to Tangshan SASAC, is located in Tangshan Harbor Economic Development Zone and has the business covering ports, logistics, water affairs, investment, development and other sectors. Tangshan Port is the address of "a great northern port" proposed by Mr. Sun Yat-sen in The General Plan of National Construction, and Tangshan Port Industrial Group is a pioneer in the development of Tangshan Port.
As a key unit of the shipping sector of Tangshan Port Group, the parent company Tangshan Port Hede Shipping Co., Ltd is mainly engaged in the operation of domestic and foreign trade container routes. Thereof, the Bohai-ring branch routes reach the ports such as Panjin, Jinzhou, Suizhong, Qinhuangdao, Tianjin, Huanghua, Weifang and Longkou, the trunk routes reach the ports such as Shanghai, Taicang, Jiangyin, Nanjing, Zhapu, Ningbo, Wenzhou, Fuzhou and Nansha and the foreign trade routes reach such as Busan and Pyeongtaek of South Korea, Kanto, Kansai and Kyushu of Japan.Vietnam Ho Chi Minh City, Thailand Linchaban route. Cooperate with Shanghai Port and Guangzhou Port to jointly open the Tangshan Port Shanghai Guangzhou route, realizing international routes connecting multiple ports around the world such as Southeast Asia, the Middle East, India and Pakistan, and the United States.
Brand/Importer Information: Athearn's history began in 1938, when its founder-to-be, Irvin Athearn, started an elaborate O scale layout in his mother's house. After placing an ad selling the layout, and receiving much response to it, Irv decided that selling model railroads would be a good living. He sold train products out of his mother's house through most of the 1940s. After becoming a full-time retailer in 1946, Irv opened a separate facility in Hawthorne, California in 1948, and that same year he branched into HO scale models for the first time.
Athearn acquired the Globe Models product line and improved upon it, introducing a comprehensive array of locomotive, passenger and freight car models. Improvements included all-wheel drive and electrical contact. One innovation was the "Hi-Fi" drive mechanism, employing small rubber bands to transfer motion from the motor spindle to the axles. Another was the double-ended ring magnet motor, which permitted easy connection to all-wheel-drive assemblies. Athearn was also able to incorporate flywheels into double-ended drives.
The company produced a model of the Boston & Maine P4 class Pacific steam locomotive which incorporated a cast zinc alloy base and thermoplastic resin superstructure. It had a worm drive and all power pickup was through the bipolar trucks that carried the tender. This item was discontinued after the Wilson motor was no longer available, and was not redesigned for a more technologically advanced motor.
Athearn's car fleet included shorter-than-scale interpretations of passenger cars of Southern Pacific and Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad prototypes. The company also offered a variety of scale-length freight cars with sprung and equalized trucks. The cars could be obtained in simple kit form, or ready-to-run in windowed display boxes. The comprehensive scope of the product line contributed to the popularity of HO as a model railroad scale, due to the ready availability of items and their low cost.
Irv Athearn died in 1991. New owners took control in 1994, but continued to follow Athearn's commitment to high-quality products at reasonable prices. Athearn was bought in 2004 by Horizon Hobby. Athearn was then moved from its facility in Compton to a new facility in Carson, California. In mid-2009, all remaining US production was moved to China and warehousing moved to parent Horizon Hobby. Sales and product development was relocated to a smaller facility in Long Beach, California.
Read more on Wikipedia and Athearn website.
Athearn acquired the Globe Models product line and improved upon it, introducing a comprehensive array of locomotive, passenger and freight car models. Improvements included all-wheel drive and electrical contact. One innovation was the "Hi-Fi" drive mechanism, employing small rubber bands to transfer motion from the motor spindle to the axles. Another was the double-ended ring magnet motor, which permitted easy connection to all-wheel-drive assemblies. Athearn was also able to incorporate flywheels into double-ended drives.
The company produced a model of the Boston & Maine P4 class Pacific steam locomotive which incorporated a cast zinc alloy base and thermoplastic resin superstructure. It had a worm drive and all power pickup was through the bipolar trucks that carried the tender. This item was discontinued after the Wilson motor was no longer available, and was not redesigned for a more technologically advanced motor.
Athearn's car fleet included shorter-than-scale interpretations of passenger cars of Southern Pacific and Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad prototypes. The company also offered a variety of scale-length freight cars with sprung and equalized trucks. The cars could be obtained in simple kit form, or ready-to-run in windowed display boxes. The comprehensive scope of the product line contributed to the popularity of HO as a model railroad scale, due to the ready availability of items and their low cost.
Irv Athearn died in 1991. New owners took control in 1994, but continued to follow Athearn's commitment to high-quality products at reasonable prices. Athearn was bought in 2004 by Horizon Hobby. Athearn was then moved from its facility in Compton to a new facility in Carson, California. In mid-2009, all remaining US production was moved to China and warehousing moved to parent Horizon Hobby. Sales and product development was relocated to a smaller facility in Long Beach, California.
Read more on Wikipedia and Athearn website.
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