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For this week's Freight Car Friday here's a little something different. Rather than a freight car we have a highway trailer that was once owned by a railroad. Long retired, this 40 ft former Southern Railway owned TOFC trailer (SOUZ 206309) is in remarkably good condition other than missing one of its axles and is sitting on private property adjacent the former Erie Southern Tier Main Line just east of Metro North's Otisville station.
The Southern Railway was a modern and progressive carrier in the 1960s and 1970s and wholly embraced the early intermodal market buying fleets of trailers and containers which they marketed as Rail Highway Service. From the 1950s to the 1999s railroad owned intermodal highway trailers were a common sight on America's rails and roads emblazoned with countless names and colorful logos of what are now all fallen flag Class 1s. Today the containers (and few trailers) no longer carry railroad names and instead are emblazoned with the logos of international, steamship companies, nationwide trucking firms, 3PL companies, express companies such as UPS and FedEx, and giant retailers like Amazon and Wal-Mart.
I could find very few resources on line dedicated to railroad owned intermodal fleets of years past in general and the Southern Railway's in particular so if anyone knows when this trailer was built and by what company and when it was sold I'd love to learn more.
Regardless, enjoy this series of photos detailing this remarkable survivor.
This detail shot captures the ACI lablel on the right side of the trailer that is still in remarkably good shape. ACI stood for Automatic Car Identification and it was adopted by the AAR (Association of American Ralroads) in 1967 when Sylvania's KarTrak system was chosen for implementation industry wide. But by 1977 the AAR abandoned the system for several reasons and the colorful stripes seen here which were applied when this car was delivered new, served no purpose for most of the car's life.
And even though ACI was an utter failure, the bar code technology it pioneered came to revolutionize inventory and shipment tracking systems worldwide and the little black and white bars are ubiquitous on nearly everything we purchase. And railroads finally did find an automated car tracking system that worked in the form of the passive RFID system known as AEI (Automatic Equipment Identification) that now is found on every railcar in service in North America. If you're interested in learning more about ACI this is a neat little article I found: tedium.co/2017/09/05/kartrak-railroad-barcode-history/amp
Village of Otisville
Mount Hope, New York
Thursday July 13, 2026
Wednesday Tai Chi @ 3pl SLT at the Center for Mindful Learning.
Come listen to the music and watch our avatars move together ♥
No voice needed, wear comfortable clothing ;)
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W-3PL Gluszek prototype
Seven PZL W-3WA Sokol armed version of the W-3 were converted to PL standard, including a glass cockpit, FADEC ( digitally controlled) engines, HOCAS and a data link. Also, the twin 23 mm cannon was replaced by single, pilot controlled, 12,7 mm WKM-Bz machine gun. 0901 was the prototype for the conversion, 0606 was written of on 22 june 2017.
13/05/2022
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On Friday 12th April. Bonhams on New Bond Street in London will be dedicated to Bentley when it hosts the 'Age of Endeavour' exhibition in celebration of the centenary of Bentley Motors Ltd.
100 years of racing by Bentley will be illustrated by 100 pieces of memorabilia including artefacts once owned by W.O. Bentley, F.T. Burgess and J.D. Benjafield. In addition to the memorabilla will be four Bentley team cars on display in the main saleroom.
The exhibition is only open for one day and is free to attend.
Copyright: Bentley Motors Ltd, Pyms Lane, Crewe CW1 3PL
For this week's Freight Car Friday here's a little something different. Rather than a freight car we have a highway trailer that was once owned by a railroad. Long retired, this 40 ft former Southern Railway owned TOFC trailer (SOUZ 206309) is in remarkably good condition other than missing one of its axles and is sitting on private property adjacent the former Erie Southern Tier Main Line just east of Metro North's Otisville station.
The Southern Railway was a modern and progressive carrier in the 1960s and 1970s and wholly embraced the early intermodal market buying fleets of trailers and containers which they marketed as Rail Highway Service. From the 1950s to the 1999s railroad owned intermodal highway trailers were a common sight on America's rails and roads emblazoned with countless names and colorful logos of what are now all fallen flag Class 1s. Today the containers (and few trailers) no longer carry railroad names and instead are emblazoned with the logos of international, steamship companies, nationwide trucking firms, 3PL companies, express companies such as UPS and FedEx, and giant retailers like Amazon and Wal-Mart.
I could find very few resources on line dedicated to railroad owned intermodal fleets of years past in general and the Southern Railway's in particular so if anyone knows when this trailer was built and by what company and when it was sold I'd love to learn more.
Regardless, enjoy this series of photos detailing this remarkable survivor.
Village of Otisville
Mount Hope, New York
Thursday July 13, 2026
Kent, Wash.-based Holman Distribution leases 13 Peterbilt Model 579s, under a full-service lease with Western Pacific Leasing, the local PacLease franchise. The day cabs serve Holman’s 3PL business, which consists of a 1.1 million square foot warehouse that’s home to 100-plus customers who strategically store their goods for area deliveries.
The Bentley T-Series replaced the S3 Continental Flying Spur in 1965, and originally cost £60 less than the Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow, and was identical apart from front grille and badges. While nightclub owners and TV stars tarnished the Silver Shadow's image, the Bentley T-Series retained an air of aristocratic gentility. Rolls-Royce chose not to push sales of the T-Series, and when production of the Silver Shadow and T-Series saloon ended in 1980, but the Corniche version would continue until it was renamed Continental in 1984. In total 2,585 Bentley T-series and all derivatives were sold, compared to 37,971 Silver Shadows and derivatives.
Both the Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow, and the T-Series were offered with the option of a drophead coupe and fixedhead coupe versions which were built by Mulliner Park Ward in London and a small number by James Young. The MPW versions were renamed Corniche in 1971.
Copyright: Bentley Motors Ltd, Pyms Lane, Crewe, CW1 3PL.