Those are Roadrailers, they've been around for years, though AMTK has
only been handling them for a couple of years. They've been handling
mail and express for a while too, and would like to do more, some host
roads don't like the idea, others realize it's not the kind of business
they can capture and are happy to help take it away from trucks.
All of this has been documented for a while in Trains, Railfan and
Railroad, CTC Board and Railnews (before they were shut down by Pentrex).
Terry
Allan Warrior wrote:
> An aside:
> I was traveling down I-5 south of Sacramento, CA this week and was
running
> parallel to AMTRAK. I was suprised to see AMTRAK pulling five freight
> semi-trailers. The RR trucks were attached to the front and rear of the
> semi-trailers in an articulated fashion. I have never seen a setup like
that
> before. Also, since when does AMTRAK handle Freight?
>
> Regards,
> Allan Warrior
>
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