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Good news and bad news for you.... The bad news is that subject line is wrong. Yyour defunct idea isn't really defunct. Last year at the Intermodal Assoc. of North American Annual Confernce, a person from Sweden gave a presentation on exactly what you are talking about. They were using "Swap Body" equipment to do self-unloading containers. They call their trucks Lorres, similar to the British and have what they call "self discharging Lorries" which can winch a container onto and off of a train. They operate this on light volume lines, where, like you suggested, there isn't enough volume to justify a terminal, but where they want local service. See the link below regarding an example of this for grain hoppers. They felt that they could use the train crew to swap out the containers at local sidings. http://ex-epsilon.slu.se/archive/00000127/01/Exarb_LT,_M_Kihlstr%C3%B6m,_2003-6.pdf
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