Originally Posted by bluelinec4:
Is this rocket science Put it on the tracks!! No flat car needed
Come on now, that would only make sense!
I remember seeing a bunch of new passenger cars sitting at the Dundalk Marine Terminal on flat cars, also wondered why didn't they just put them on the tracks and move them to their destination with an engine.
New cars can be shipped to the dealership more efficiently by truck than a locomotive or a string of cars can be moved by rail, one driver per cars gets expensive, one engineer per string of cars or locos is still the same as one engineer pulling a locomotive on a flat car or a string of cars to their destination.
Jerry