I tried a Google search under this heading… and came up with loads of stuff about loading and load systems… all of the first 3 pages modern stuff.
It wasn’t what I wanted but it might help someone else.
What I’m after is any sort of rail car, boxcar, covered hopper, tankcar, being shipped by road. I don’t know if this happens in the USA… or more particularly if it happened about 1985?
Reasons? Where I live I occasionally get large tankcars carried on extendable frame trucks. The fun part is that they have to do two rightangle turns and use their re-steer facility to miss street furniture. It looks really weird when the back end of a semitrailer is going almost sideways. Seeing the top of a tankcar going past between the houses also really confuses visitors. [:-,] The other reason is that I’ve just picked up a couple of such (Kibri) semitrailers cheap. [^] I could put “conventional” big loads on them but a rail car would be different/intersting/more fun.
Anyone got any pics please?
Thanks
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Don’t have any pics, but a few years ago, I was on I-270 here in Columbus, Ohio and saw a flatbed truck hauling a former Conrail caboose (minus the trucks).
Kevin
Don’t know the exact year, and don’t have pics, but when the Black Mesa and Lake Powell line was built all of the rolling stock HAD to have been trucked in.
The BM&LP runs from a coal mine to a power station in the approximate heart of nowhere (Navajo nation, NE Arizona) and many miles from the nearest possible connection. Since the rolling stock wasn’t built on-site, the only way in was by truck - miles and miles of road through some very arid country.
Just to add to the confusion, the BM&LP is electrified (50KV.)
Chuck (Modeling Central Arizona in September, 1964 - about as different from NE Arizona as is geographically possible)
I live just outside of Lincoln, NE and periodically one will see railcars from wrecks being trucked in to the BNSF Havelock Shops. Very impressive load with lots of overhang all around. Often they are carried on their sides. I was fortunate enough several years ago to watch them unload a truck - very impressive in watching the car be taken off the trailer and rotated to its upright position.
When Trinity Industries had a fabrication facility in Oklahoma City, they would transport tank car shells on flat bed semi-trucks. This was nearly twenty years ago when I saw it and I never determined if it was between local plants or if they made it all the way to Ft. Worth for final assembly. John Timm