Editing Intermodal container (section)

==== Canadian 60-foot containers ====
In April 2017, [[Canadian Tire]] and [[Canadian Pacific Railway]] announced deployment of what they claimed to be the first '''60-foot''' intermodal containers in North America.<ref name="CPR1">{{citation|title=Canadian Pacific and Canadian Tire Corporation Deploy North America's First 60-foot Intermodal Container |url=http://www.cpr.ca/en/media/cp-and-canadian-tire-corporation-deploy-north-americas-first-60-foot-intermodal-container |date=27 April 2017 | access-date=3 May 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170511052334/http://www.cpr.ca/en/media/cp-and-canadian-tire-corporation-deploy-north-americas-first-60-foot-intermodal-container|archive-date=2017-05-11|url-status=dead}}</ref> The containers are transportable on the road using specially configured trucks and telescoping trailers (where vehicle size limits permit it), and on the railway using the top positions of double-stack container cars.<ref name="TruckNews1">{{citation|author1-last=Menzies|author1-first=James|title=Canadian Tire's push for 60|url=https://www.trucknews.com/transportation/canadian-tires-push-60/1003076548/|date=2016-12-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161226075417/https://www.trucknews.com/transportation/canadian-tires-push-60/1003076548/|archive-date=2016-12-26|url-status=live|website=TruckNews.com|access-date=2024-11-07|quote=McKenna has been pursuing the use of 60-ft. containers for several years now. It began as an idea to transition to 57-ft. containers, capable of accommodating two additional pallets, but he upped the ante when he saw another retailer was pulling a 60-ft. trailer on Ontario roads.}}</ref> According to initial projections, Canadian Tire believed it would allow them to increase the volume of goods shipped per container by 13%.<ref name="CPR1" /> Five years after the deployment of the containers, analyst Larry Gross observed that United States truck size regulations are more constraining than those in Canada, and predicted that for the foreseeable future, these larger containers would remain exclusive to Canada.<ref name="Trains1">{{citation|author1-last=Gunnoe|author1-first=Chase|title=Analysis: Canada's 60-foot container will likely stay north of the border|url=https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/analysis-canadas-60-foot-container-will-likely-stay-north-of-the-border/|date=2022-11-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240226015009/https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/analysis-canadas-60-foot-container-will-likely-stay-north-of-the-border/|archive-date=2024-02-26|url-status=live|website=[[Trains (magazine)|Trains]] website|access-date=2024-11-07|quote=It's been five years since Canadian Pacific and retail giant Canadian Tire Corp. unveiled North America's first 60-foot intermodal container, and intermodal analyst Larry Gross says the larger container type is probably going to remain exclusive to Canada for the foreseeable future.}}</ref>