Re: AMC / Train / railroad / autorack question - which roadname ?

[JOE FULTON <piper_pa20@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The flat car in the photo (with the auto rack) is a
leased car from Trailer Train (now TTX).  There may or
may not have also been a railroad logo on the auto
rack.  I loaded new Ford trucks and unloaded new
Mustangs and other Fords in the L&N yards in
Louisville, Ky during summer vacation while I was in
college.

One of my coworkers dropped a new Mustang (66 model)
through the gap between the cars on the third level
when a between car ramp gave way.  It was a lot of
trouble to recover that car.

The cars were shipped from the Ford plant with one car
(generally the lead car on the first deck) having a
bag of keys for all the other cars.  Bums (hobos) 
would sometimes climb up and break a window and sleep
in the cars or trucks while they were in transit.

A reference on shipment of cars by rail is here:
http://www.nrhs.com/spot/auto/

Joe Fulton
Salinas, CA 
--- Christopher Ziemnowicz <chrisz@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I am late in responding to this topic, but I have
> one picture of tri-level rail cars being loaded up
> in Kenosha. No railroad name is visible - but there
> are many new Pacers and a two Matador sedans. The
> picture came from an AMC press release commemorating
> their 75th anniverary - counting the start of the
> Rambler production.
> The picture is part of some history during 1977 on a
> page about a new '77 Matador a family friend had
> ordered through Courtesy AMC/Jeep in Bethesda,
> Maryland.
> 
>
http://faculty.concord.edu/chrisz/hobby/Courtesy/_77Matador.html
> 
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