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TrainsOnTheMove NS 2640 Northbound with the Triple Crown RoadRailer

  • Posted on August 8, 2011 at 1:23 pm

Trains On The Move NS 2640 Northbound with the Triple Crown RoadRailer was filmed on August 29,2009 in Saginaw, TX on the (BNSF) Fort Worth Subdivision. In 1997, the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway (BNSF) joined the TCS Network, providing service for Triple Crown Roadrailers between Kansas City, KS and Saginaw, TX. BNSF interchanges trailers back to NS in Kansas City, Missouri. Delivery to BNSF is at Argentine, KS from NS and are straight run-through trains which originate in Pennsylvania and Ohio. BNSF delivers Roadrailers to Norfolk Southern’s yard in North Kansas City, MO. A Roadrailer or RoadRailer is a highway trailer, or semi-trailer, that is specially-equipped for use in railroad intermodal service. The advantage of using roadrailers is that due to their construction, the trailers can be pulled directly behind other freight (or even passenger) equipment without the use of trailer flatcars. Roadrailers first appeared on American railroads in the 1950s. The trailers were built with integrated railroad wheelsets that could be lowered into position when the trailer was pulled behind a train. More modern roadrailers do not include integrated railroad wheels, but ride on specially-manufactured bogies that do double-duty, serving as articulation points between multiple trailers in a train. Each truck is equipped with two fifth wheels and at one end (or both ends) of a convoy there is an adaptor truck equipped with one fifth wheel and one regular AAR Type “E” or Type …

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