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| steamyman |
trucks (lorry)I found this interesting-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorry |
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| TRAPPERKEEPER |
Nice, I like that road train in Australia, are they common? | ||||
| rangerssteamtoys |
I'm not sure about being common but it sure does look cool 
Would be a KILLER to go around tight turns though. |
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| Mister Occlusion |
Apparently also a killer if you flick your steering wheel just a little too much... Trucker buddy says those things go back and forth like a snake all the time as it is. Flick of the wheel and it goes like a whip... |
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| rangerssteamtoys |
Well, never thought of that. woudl be a fun way to get people from passing you. One crack of the "Whip" and that cars flying 
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| Cranko |
Thats a real mean lookin Kenny tractor and semi 
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| Wallace |
Yeah they are common when getting out of cities and on the edges of desert areas. They pretty much link our states. I lived in a town for 6 months where they departed from, and was warned about them. 2 Rules, you keep out of their way and only overtake if you are prepared to break the speed limit. When they are at 110km/h they literally won't try to avoid anything in their way, cos they can't
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| johnreid |
I have seen the triple trailered trucks on the Interstate, I would think that they have to get off in order to load unload etc.
Another interesting item in the US are Semi truck trailers that get fitted onto flanged wheels and are pulled by a locomotive on the tracks. They go real fast and one Loco can pull a very long train of them as truck trailers do not weigh like a Boxcar. Norfolk Southern uses them and calls them Roadrailers. I do not know if Union Pacific uses them anymore, maybe Ranger could tell us. |
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| TRAPPERKEEPER |
Or me, we live in the same city 
Yeah I think those are used, there is a railroad at the entrance to my neighborhood, will check it out for you 
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| Mister Occlusion |
Never seen roadrailers up here. Here we have this Intermodal stuff. Semi trailer gets lifted off its axles and stuck on top of a sunken flat car. They usually stack them two high.
Actually I'm pretty sure they're shipping containers converted to be pulled behind semi's, rather than semi trailers converted for rail transport |
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| TRAPPERKEEPER |
I think you are both talking about the same thing, but I don't know.  We definitely use the double stacking method on flatcars here, I know that for sure =)
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| Cranko |
Too many tunnels in New Zealand for double stacking, have enough trouble with single 
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| johnreid |
this shows what I am talking about, not regular freight containers as in double stacks.
http://www.triplecrownsvc.com/Bimodal.html |
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| Dave B |
Cool - I live 300 metres away from the CP (Canadian Pacific) main line, and have never seen anything like that on the rail, just lots of intermodal cars - both double stacked shipping containers and trailer units on flat cars. I have seen the CP "Empress" a couple of times this summer, a pleasant change from the rumble of multi diesel locomotive, hundred car monsters building up momentum for the trip over the Rockies... http://www8.cpr.ca/cms/English/Ge...efault.htm?Show=2816%20at%20Banff |
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| johnreid |
Cool, a club I used to belong to sposored a rail trip that used the Rolling Flashlight ( CP Royal Hudson 2839 ) real nice engine that one was. | ||||
| Mister Occlusion |
http://www.cn.ca/images/Photo_library/EF-2936-1.jpg
That's the Intermodal system we have. http://www.cn.ca/images/Photo_library/EF_3071_1.jpg http://www.cn.ca/images/Photo_library/EF-3071-13.jpg |
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| johnreid |
MR O, that is by far the most common way that Intermodal is handled here too.
When the Roadrailers first started up CSX used them also, they revived some F9s to pull them and it was just as exciting for many as a Steam Engine would have been, IMHO the Fs and Es were what Deisel engines should have been, |