That's pretty damned interesting. Obviously rails can support the weight and there's been a number of armoured cars converted to rail use that were plenty heavy but this is the first time I've heard of such a large truck being converted for such use.
Even more interesting because the company doing this is in my home town and I'll take a wild guess and speculate that this conversion is probably aimed at the private railways serving the mining industry. They operate in some very remote areas with lengths of track running for many hundreds of kilometres through uninhabited countryside in some cases. In those regions, bulk ore trains are typically 2,400 metres long and "specials" can be up to 7,300 metres long so a couple of light utility trucks and a two-tonner probably just aren't up to the task!
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