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The primary reason that the original RoadRailer concept was not viable was the weight penalty imposed on the trailers because of the attached railroad wheelset. This was resolved in later designs which removed the integrated wheelset by having a dedicated rail bogie assembly that stayed in the rail yard, as seen today. [citation needed] [9]
The 25-ton switcher was designed primarily for switching duties (moving railroad cars to and from loading/unloading facilities, as well as making up and breaking down trains), with both low power output and low top speed for a locomotive. While not very capable of hauling mainline trains, these features made it cheaper than most other locomotives.
Toward that end, in 1968 General Motors and the Southern Pacific Railroad jointly began work on development of a radical new rail car designed to carry the Chevrolet Vega, a new compact car being developed by GM. Known as Vert-A-Pac, the rail cars would hold 30 Vegas in a vertical, nose-down position, versus 18 in normal tri-level autoracks ...
A Schnabel car or Schnabel wagon is a specialized type of railroad freight car. It is designed to carry heavy and oversized loads in such a way that the load makes up part of the car. It is designed to carry heavy and oversized loads in such a way that the load makes up part of the car.
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The Regio-Shuttle RS1 low-floor vehicle is a modern version of a single unit railcar. Several of these can run together. The RegioSpider modern railcar. A 1,520 mm (4 ft 11 + 27 ⁄ 32 in) Russian gauge Latvian RVR-made railbus AR2-002 in Vilnius, Lithuania, based on Soviet design A ČSD Class M 152.0 in Leipzig An electric SJ Class X16 with control trailer between Strängnäs and Malmby in Sweden
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