Ye Olde Auto-Train

In browsing through the British Columbia Archives for pictures of old trains, I stumbled upon this image


It's a Pacific Great Eastern gascar no. 102 hauling a flat car of three sedans near Lillooet some time in the 1940s.

It's noted on this article http://www.trainweb.org/oldtimetrains/p ... /three.htm that this service was provided up to 1961 between Lillooet and Shalalth due to the absence of road. There's a road today, but having driven from Seton Portage to Shalalth it's rough road and certainly not all-season, and to this day despite the general end of passenger rail service on the old PGE, the Province, CN, and the local First Nation continue to operate a small daily doodlebug to serve the communities between Shalalth and Lillooet (which is an excellent joyride)

The above article also provides some details on No. 102, which is a Hall-Scott 64 foot 8 cyl. 200 HP gas-mechanical, built 1913

So my broader question is regarding what people know about put-your-car-on-the-train automobile transport services from back in the day

During August 1960, on the "family trip to Europe", I rode through the St. Gothard Tunnel as it then existed on a flatcar. As I recall, "whole lot of shaking going on" - even in a brand new Mercedes Benz.

I have shuddered at times on my twenty five Auto-Train "voyages" thinking about "my buggy back there".

Bryan Cranston tells the story of his honeymoon involving an automobile train ferry through alpine tunnels.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_IuRdyDrdM