Is this something new? I have never seen this before. A shortline hauling a double stack train of frieght containers. Special arrangement? Or is this becomming more common practice? Just curious.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnHV12aVQco
Dedicated service to the American Fuel Harvester subsidiary in Raeford.
https://www.hokenews.com/index.php/2021/07/14/what-is-that-in-raeford-green-shipping-containers-and-a-great-big-wood-chipper/
Toledo PEORIA AND WESTERN....KANKAKEE BEAVERTON AND SOUTHERN....VERMONT RAILWAY. MADE THERE real money by the per diam leasing of trailers and railcars not by haulage
The garbage shippers are handling more traffic by double stack and it is becoming the new standard to ship municipal solid waste (MSW) in the east. So you will see more short lines handling stacks. Notice the rag tops in the follwing link:
It's a race!: The NERAIL New England Railroad Photo Archive
Well, that is both interesting and unexpected I guess.
It only makes sense that if the specialized equipment to handle top-stack containers exists at origin and destination, and there are adequate cars available for the move (probably those built purely for ocean-container lengths but with plenty of years of use left in them), we'll see more economics of scale... particularly when the equipment is block-swapped at all the intermediate rail points, both as with the AFH train and the garbage move through Ayer.
Notice that the grade crossing gates were out of service and they had to post a flagman there.
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