I’m familiar with the use of the term “Hi Rail” as it pertains to a MOW motor vehicle equipped with railway compatible wheelsets (signal maintainers, etc)
But, when a logistics company calls themself a “Hi Rail” operation, and is using a RR right of way for their plant, what exactly does this mean?
Is this an operation using (example) a specially equipped Kenworth to pull boxcars down the track, or what?
Since no-one here has responded with an answer, why don’t you employ the direct approach and ask the company in question?
gee, now THERE is a service every forum needs. Someone to suggest that inquisitors take their curiousity elsewhere…thanks a lot.
Maybe it means they ship with both rail and trucks?
My point was, it appears you seem to know more about this company than anyone else here, otherwise, there would have been several replies to your query by now.
You have given us very limited information. Does the company you refer to have a rig like this one on the IC/CN?
Off topic, but maybe we should know. Just what were you “convicted” of?
Impersonating Buster Keaton.
Not to start a dirt throwing contest, but yeah, in the absence of any meaningful answer from anyone here, I guess the only recourse would be to track the company down and ask them.
Nice of you to state the obvious for me, just in case I was too dense to draw the same conclusion. [:)]
Kinda like when you post at a forum and ask “how is the food at such and such a restaurant?” it’s pretty obvious that the asker is looking for local opinion, from people who may have eaten there and have one.
Saying “why don’t you look up their phone number and call them and ask them?” is counter productive, since it is usually the desire to observe local knowledge when people come to forums asking questions in the first place
Derned if I know, It’s just a name I saw on a De Lorme map, listing a rr right of way. So I’m just trying to get an idea what they might be doing differently to justify the name
LOL!! which time?
OK Perhaps local knowledge would help, letting us know where the locality is might help. There is a company that sends out men and equipment to handle many projects along the right of way.
One,
There was also a shortline operation that operated various lines in Indiana that called itself “Indiana HI-Rail Corp”. Whether they had a separate logistics division, I can’t say. If they did, they might have named it similarly. The shortline died several years ago and some lines (but not all) were picked up by others.
And as for stating the obvious, it was nothing personal, sometimes you can’t see the trees because there is a forest in the way.
That reminds me of a town just north of Madison WI
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Yep. DeForest
well, OK, what distinguished their operation from a standard railroad, to warrant the moniker “hi rail”?
Just thinking about it paints pictures of 'hi-rail" trucks using a railroad right of way in lieu of the freeways
I would call them and ask them, but since as you pointed out, they are no longer in business. [:-,]
Perhaps, the name was just something the owners thought would be catchy and memorable. See the thread about Great railroad names.
Route of the Hi-Rail.
(We stop in Montana)
KCS has an almost identical unit. Used to see it parked at the motel at Pittsburg while on my way to school several time a week.