Non-motoring > Road and Rail working together. Miscellaneous
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New Wed 2 Mar 16 03:20 
 Road and Rail working together. - Pat
www.youtube.com/watch?v=afvGStYT9xI&feature=youtu.be

It can be done.

Pat
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New Wed 2 Mar 16 06:20 
 Road and Rail working together. - Duncan
How old is that film?
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New Wed 2 Mar 16 06:44 
 Road and Rail working together. - Pat
1962 Duncan, the clue is in the title on You Tube!

Pat
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New Wed 2 Mar 16 08:31 
 Road and Rail working together. - Zero
>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=afvGStYT9xI&feature=youtu.be
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>> It can be done.

The answer is, it could be done - then, but it was done far less than you think and was the exception rather than the rule and can no longer be done now. This and similar films regularly crop up on the railway oriented discussion groups, I wont go into the thousands of "why it can't be done" reasons, but a biggie is the fact that Beeching ripped up most of the railway.

One interesting fact is that modern production techniques and materials means there are far less abnormal loads to shift around. So perhaps the real answer is, "we no longer need to do it"
Last edited by: Zero on Wed 2 Mar 16 at 08:34
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New Wed 2 Mar 16 09:59 
 Road and Rail working together. - Old Navy
We get a few big if not too heavy road loads and a lot of temporary access roads. It comes with being overrun with onshore wind turbines.
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