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Originally Posted by johndallman
Most trench railways were under 2' gauge, and had to be unloaded by hand without equipment. Using boxes on them might well be sensible, but they'd have to be much smaller, maybe 3' cubes?
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Sorry to drag this up but a thought just occurred to me.
One possible (although more complex) solution would be a modular system based around a trench scale box say either a 5' cube or 5'x5'x10' (I am not sure that the small 3' cube would be big enough to make this viable) augmented with a 10' cube adaptor consisting of a frame holding either four or eight loose boxes designed to simplify handling when shipping on trucks, by mainline rail or by sea.
Post war the shipping industry probably retains the technology although quickly retiring the 5' 'trench box' in most roles in favour of larger 10' boxes based upon the adapter.