Ah, yes. The best way to transport a train car is to put it on a truck. If only I lived in a country that was built on a railroad that went from coast to coast or something. You would think they would just load it up on cargo rail to bring it across country.
Rail is great unless you don’t fit the requitements… I bet the mostly assembled trains didn’t fit within the largest rail car dimensions or something silly as rail is often much cheaper for long distant large shipments.
Considering a single flatcar can carry two shipping containers back to back, I don’t think this would have presented an issue. I highly doubt anyone ever even bothered to give any thoughts to what the best way to transport them was and just went with whatever default logistics company they usually use and let them do whatever they want. There’s a reason we are almost dead last in terms of our climate action and GHG production in the world.
You might be right, but I was more thinking the height and width limits for the snow sheds and tunnels in the Rockies. Some large loads can ONLY go via truck / highway due too their dimensions.
As a huge railfan, I’d say it would make the most sense to ship by rail if they had dozens of trainsets to deliver at once.
They have to load it on a truck anyway to get it from the test track to the switching area a couple kilometres away, then load it off the truck to deliver it. For one or two trains made of 3 parts each, trucking it seems more cost-effective.
