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Piggyback and containers : a history of rail intermodal on America's steel highway
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- Description
- This is the story of rail-intermodal, the process of transporting truck trailers or containers on specifically designed railroad cars, including the development of Gene Ryan's Rail-Trailer Co., General Motors flirtation with a depressed center-car design, the establishment of Trailer Train, Southern Pacific's truck-trailer train experiement between Los Angeles-San Francisco (handling only company-owned Pacific Motor Trucking trailers), the separation of Pennsylvania Railroad's influence over Trailer Train, the combination rail-highway units familiarly called Rail Van and RoadRailer. Featured are the various hitch arrangements, the once popular trailer-leasing program, the expansion of United Parcel from a department store delivery service to the nation's largest freight carrier and their influence on rail-piggyback--Adapted from jacket.
- Publication date
- [1992]
- Call number
- 644084
