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My Local shortline used a roadrailer type unit too. It was a specially built Unimog (Mercedes-Benz truck). The Bay Colony used this unit until selling it in 1991. They used this unit as a mobile locomotive since it was street legal. It could slowely tow a few cars but they had trouble as they had a hard time stopping the cars. One employee told me that it would frequently derail trying to stop and would be pushed off the tracks!!! The employess also told me how when on the road it's max speed was 45 mph and sometimes he would have to drive it to an isolated line almost 75 miles away!
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