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http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?4,3526435

Look at the Triple Crown trailer on flatcar. Triple Crown used to be RoadRailers. Now they're running TOFC?

I think, but do not know, that RoadRailer has been declared a failed concept and TC is switching to regular trailers.

We shall see.

That not a roadrailer trailer. Just a regular dry van owned by TripleCrown.

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> That not a roadrailer trailer. Just a regular dry
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That's the point! Triple Crown was just RoadRailers. Now they're going to TOFC! RoadRailer, it be dead.

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> That's the point! Triple Crown was just
> RoadRailers. Now they're going to TOFC!
> RoadRailer, it be dead.

I can not tell that from the 140 car Triple Crown
trains I see in and out of their Yard here in Fort Wayne,
Indiana.

Thanks

Mark



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/19/14 21:30 by Markedup.

Besides RoadRailer service Triple Crown also has OTR (over the road) and TOFC. This provides more shipping and cost options for shippers.

I have read that NS is not ordering any new Triple Crown Roadrailer trailers to replace those older units that are being phased out with the end of their service life. If that is accurate, the concept is living on borrowed time. But the trains here through Fort Wayne are still impressive.

We NS watchers down south have heard the same thing...

leroy

I have also heard a "rumor" that they might be eventually phased out......

But they are still nice to see and they are my wife's favorite train!!! :<)

I so a roadrailer trailer on a flat car. the other day. It was on 210. It had a bad order sticker on the side.

It's certainly possible for a RoadRailer trailer to ride on a flat car, perhaps not only bad orders like Dewman observed, although it's unlikely a RoadRailer trailer would make part of a trip in a RoadRailer train and then be placed on a flat car to complete the journey.

I, too, have heard that Triple Crown does not plan to replace the RoadRailer fleet as it shrinks from retirements. Eventually there will be few enough RoadRailer trailers that the operation of dedicated trains will no longer be economical, and the survivors from the fleet will probably enter TOFC service full-time. All of the non-RoadRailer Triple Crown trailers I have seen are second-hand vans formerly belonging to Celadon.

Roadrailer was and is not a failure. It will be phased out mainly due to other Intermodal, namely containers, having become the mode of choice due to less tare weight. No need to drag around heavy chassis either Roadrailer or TOFC.
UPS, Schneider etc are shifting away from trailers in Intermodal service.
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