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RailsEast wrote: ↑Mon Jun 28, 2021 9:05 am As far as the aforementioned RailRunner technology goes, it was used by Conrail and later Norfolk Southern under the Road Railer name (Triple Crown Service on NS). NS has greatly cut back the Triple Crown service (no more 262 into River Yard in Bethlehem, Pa for example) to primarily serve the auto parts industry in the mid-west. It seems that NS finds it more cost effective to load freight into containers at the present time.Most trailers used for freight-related stuff are usually containers anyway. I'm sure that if a company on the Southern after the Farmingdale-Freehold connection is done wants them, they could get them, and it would be FAR easier to get a crane or forklift to move containers around; requires way less space too
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