Road Railers?

[NJCurmudgeon]

I was perusing some railfan videos on YouTube and came across this: http://youtu.be/HOmcQ7DPlM0

At the beginning is a Norfolk Southern pulling "road railers" - truck trailers without flatcars but suspended between shared bogies. I have never heard of this before, but pretty neat. I wonder if this could be created for Trainz?

 

[cascaderailroad]

There are some, from the now defunct EastCoastTrainz site, which is only on the Wayback Machine ... and possibly some others somewhere else.

 

[SharkNose]

I haven't downloaded them, but I see a bunch on the DLS by bigdave7533. Just search for Roadrailer.

NS was still running them out by Cresson, PA last year, but there was talk of discontinuing the service. Not sure if they're still running now or not.

 

[Rivkah]

There is a website for Road Railers http://www.triplecrownsvc.com. Perhaps this will provide prototypical information.

 

[pdkoester]

I downloaded them, the "C" units have a missing KUID. I tried reusing the front bogey for the missing one, it looks awful.

 

[xcrossi]

The "C" unit may have a errored attachment.

<kuid:38408:50108>
username "Roadrailer Attachment"
kind "bogey"

 

[yutzk]

I haven't downloaded them, but I see a bunch on the DLS by bigdave7533. Just search for Roadrailer.

NS was still running them out by Cresson, PA last year, but there was talk of discontinuing the service. Not sure if they're still running now or not.

Still running them currently, their years are numbered though so I've been hearing from my Triple Crown rep at work. I figure in the next 5 years or so you'll see the Roadrailer dedicated trains start to dissapear and the Roadrailers will more than likely be used strictly in a TOFC (Trailer on Flat Car) capacity as they are still within service life for that usage, they just wont be for Roadrailer service. Some of the older Triple Crown services trailers that are too old for Roadrailer service are already in service on Chicago, IL to Harrisburg, PA runs on TOFC service.