10-16-2011, 11:29 AM
Sumpter250 Wrote:Steve Williams Wrote:I was wondering if anyone knows of any protoype examples of facilities that may receive just a couple of auto-racks at a time?
Good question.
I know that auto-rack traffic is heaviest at the manufacturing plants, but I don't know where, and how, motor vehicles are transferred from the rail cars to trucks for delivery to dealerships. I haven't yet seen a dealership that has rail service, everything arrives by truck.
Along the Front Range, there is a huge transfer yard just south of Denver where the auto-racks are off-loaded to trucks that carry them to dealers in the Denver, Castle Rock and Colorado Springs metro areas.