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Old 02-13-2014, 05:13 PM
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Originally Posted by raketenjagdpanzer View Post
...what I've seen a lot of are trucks fitted with fold-down bogies that drive up and down the railroad track. I wonder if a few of those, towing light trailers of freight, maybe a few passengers (going to work in fields, etc.) wouldn't be the start of a "rail recovery"....

But yeah, I could see a rail service truck with bogies hauling a few trailer-fulls of oranges to a central location to convert to fuel or food here in Central Florida....
Raketenjagjpanzer, those trucks-with-bogies are apparently called "high-rail" trucks and come in multiple sizes, styles and functions--with cranes/jibs, water tanks, dump buckets, or tool boxes. The bogies are after-market additions to commercial truck models. ISTR an action/crime dramafilm where the crooks' getaway included one of these speeding down an unused subway line.
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