In the mid 1970's UP scrapped a lot of boxcars in Pocatello, Idaho. The scrapper that got the contract, trucked the boxcars to the demolition point using a custom made 40+ foot lowboy trailer. The boxcars had the trucks removed and the trailer had pins in the location where the trucks would have been so the box car was just lifted onto the pins and strapped down. They were transported vertically - not on their sides.
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I've seen truck trailors piggybacked on trains, ocean going containers on trains, but I had never seen a box car on a truck before.
Yesterday, while traveling down I-5, I saw a train box car on its side on top of the flat bed of an extra-wide trailor being pulled by one of the big semi's that move doublewides. There was "ATSF" in small white letters written up in a corner. Now this may not be worded correctly, but the trucks were on the car but no wheels. Did anyone else see it? Any ideas on why it was going down the highway instead of a train track?
Tina
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