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[QUOTE]Originally posted by delvyrails: [QB] See Trains magazine, February, 1962 for its orginal article entitiled "Questions and answers about AUTOTRAIN" for a railcar and operating concept that was intended to allow autos to be driven off and on the trains at intermediate points. The original carrier car design shown in that article allowed autos to be driven laterally on and off the railcars at points en route having special two-level platforms beside the through track. That concept avoided the need to switch the train en route. The current Amtrak carrier car can only be loaded or unloaded at the end of a string of cars. Perhaps the best idea would be to use the Amtrak standard end loaded cars to begin a long distance service, then to buy some railcars of the lateral loading kind to allow the service to be expanded to key intermedite points. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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