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Piggyback and Containers: A History of Rail Intermodal on America's Steel Highway
por David J. Deboer
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217 illustrations, car drawings, bibliography and index. This is a second edition with updated information, images and tables. Piggyback and Containers: A History of Rail Intermodal on America's Steel Highway presents the complete intermodal story. The development of Gene Ryan's Rail Trailer Company, General Motors flirtation with a depressed center-car design, the establishment of Trailer Train, Southern Pacific's truck-trailer train experiment between Los Angeles and San Francisco (handling only company owned Pacific Motor Trucking Trailers), the separation of Pennsylvania Railroad's influence over Trailer Train, the combination of rail-highway units familiarly called Rail Van and RoadRailer. Featured are the various hitch arrangements, the once popular trailer-leasing program, the expansion of United Parcel from a department store delivery service to the nation's largest freight carrier and their influence on rail-piggyback.
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- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- $FOLBIB151
- Título
- Piggyback and Containers: A History of Rail Intermodal on America's Steel Highway
- Autor
- David J. Deboer
- Estado do livro
- Usado - Perto de Excelente
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
- Encadernação
- Capa dura
- ISBN 10
- 0870951084
- ISBN 13
- 9780870951084
- Editorial
- Golden West Books
- Local de publicação
- San Marino, California, U.s.a.
- Data de publicação
- 1992
- Catálogos de livreiros
- Signed Books; American History;
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