Poking around the web. I used to see these being loaded as a kid in Italy. Thought you guys might find it amusing. http://www.binariedintorni.it/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Camioncino-e-rimorchio-con-carro-SAGI.jpg I suppose someone now makes a decent model of it as wel since I got an image of a model.
Something about that just seems... backwards, somehow... Must be the full trailer. The U.S. has used semitrailers in intermodal service since the Santa Fe invented it. If that's not it, I can't seem to put my finger on it...
Widely used in Germany also Look for Culemeyer Straßenroller at google pics = Culemeyer street roller https://www.google.de/search?safe=o...8.0....0...1.1.64.img..2.8.1018.0.oJfDrTtPlpo
Seeing that car on the back of a trailer reminded me of these things called rollbocks. They were put under the wheels of standard gauge train cars to allow them to go on narrow gauge railroads. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollbock#/media/File:Rollbock_buchau.jpg
Yes - that is a Rollbock - and there are also Rollwagen - flatcars carrying normal gauge cars. used in Gemany over a long period of time. The railroad cars on road trailer - in Germany mostly made from Culemeyer - where widely used to ship carloads to customers without rail connection. Rechsbahn since 1930/1933 - Bundesbahn (western Germany) till 1996 - Reichsbahn der DDR (Eastern germany) till 1993 and privatly used till 2014 or even longer. Bye / tschuess Harald
Back when the CN still ran the Newfoundland railway (before it was torn up...), it was 3'6" gauge. CN found a way to reduce the time it took to transfer goods from standard to narrow gauge by lifting the standard gauge cars as they came off the carferry at Port-aux-Basques and swapping the trucks for the newfie gauge and vice versa. They had dual gauge trackage in the port area, so they could run standard gauge switchers as well as the peculiar narrow gauge GMD diesels (G8, NF110, NF210).
