This black and white photograph shows employees from the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company securing a truck trailer on a flatcar. In the railroad industry, the trailer travels on flat cars, (TOFC), commonly referred to as a piggy-back service. With this intermodal of transportation, between the railroad and trucking services, freight can be delivered in half the time.
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Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's piggy-back trailer