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Roadrailer System Operating Instructions for Railvan
This small booklet was issued to instruct employees on how to prepare, couple, and uncouple the C&O’s early Roadrailer vans to passenger trains. The Roadrailer or Railvan (C&O used both names) was a highway trailer that also had railroad guide wheels which could be lowered as the trailers were attached to a transition truck which was coupled to the rear of passenger trans. The Roadrailers saw service on the C&O passenger trans in Michigan in the early-to-mid-1960s. The were dropped as the railway lost mail contracts since they were used almost exclusively for mail transportation. The idea was revved many years later.
19 pgs.
Roadrailer System Operating Instructions for Railvan
This small booklet was issued to instruct employees on how to prepare, couple, and uncouple the C&O’s early Roadrailer vans to passenger trains. The Roadrailer or Railvan (C&O used both names) was a highway trailer that also had railroad guide wheels which could be lowered as the trailers were attached to a transition truck which was coupled to the rear of passenger trans. The Roadrailers saw service on the C&O passenger trans in Michigan in the early-to-mid-1960s. The were dropped as the railway lost mail contracts since they were used almost exclusively for mail transportation. The idea was revved many years later.
19 pgs.
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