After watching the loading of this car from the rails to the semi for transport, I have a question.Would it not been cheaper to sent it by rail for rebuild.Even if they had to use newer wheel assemblys,as they still have to return it when finished.Was it he age of the car or the rail connection from the museumn. Just wondering.
Many times unless there are extremely special circumstances, the bigger roads will not do special moves on cars that don’t meet current equipment and safety requirements. Increased liability, risk to crews, track, etc. One special car can slow down a lot of traffic if it happens to be in single-main-track territory.
It could be as simple as the museum that has the car working out an arrangement to ship it via truck “at cost”, because the owner is rail buff, or something along those lines. The cost of shipping it via rail for a non-revenue move may have been much more expensive considering the routing it may or may not have gotten.
There’s not one answer that can be given for this without digging deeper into the story and details.