In view of the process of transporting glass by rail, there are problems such as high packaging cost, low ef-ficiency and high damage rate. The work aims to design a kind of safe, stable, reusable and detachable railway 20 ft glass platform container with a simple structure. The loading and reinforcement scheme was formulated. The SolidWorks software was used to perform solid modeling and finite element analysis on the glass platform container, and carry out the load limit calculation according to the technical requirements of the container strength and deformation. Finally, the platform container’s bare packaging glass was compared with the wooden box packaging form and the road transportation mode in terms of the packaging cost and transportation cost. The analysis showed that, the weakest link of the vertical load stress of glass was 275.0 MPa; during hoisting, the weakest link stress was 254.3 MPa; the weakest link of longitudinal load stress was 288.5 MPa; and the stress in all directions was less than the allowable stress of Q345 low alloy steel (345 MPa). The weakest link deformation of vertical load displacement was 5.358 mm; during hoisting, the weakest link deformation was 5.876 mm; the deformation of longitudinal force displacement was 5.156 mm; and the displacement deformation in all directions was reasonable. From the economic point of view, the platform container’s bare packaging glass had the lowest transportation cost and the lowest packaging cost. The railway 20 ft glass platform container designed herein has a promising market prospect, which can greatly improve the glass transportation efficiency and reduce the logistics cost.