The railway container system under passenger transport mode plays an important role in improving the efficiency of railway container transport in China and promoting the competitiveness of the railway in the market of high value-added freight market. With the aim of minimizing the total dwell time of trains, this paper optimizes the schedules for the passenger train-like container trains with different operation zones in railway corridors. Furthermore, we consider the specific assignment of containers to trains and ensure that the train dwell time at stations is sufficient to complete the container loading and unloading operations. A mixed integer linear programming model is formulated by considering whether the arrival time of the train is convenient for the clients to pick up the goods, the freight transit period and the allocation of the arrival-departure tracks. The proposed model is solved using the CPLEX solver. The numerical experiments were implemented on the Lianyungang-Alataw pass corridor to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.