This photograph shows a Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe Railway Company flat car, 90151, loaded with two 40' truck trailers. It illustrates ATSF Railway Company's trailer on flat car (TOFC) or piggy-back services. It is also called intermodal transportation, because it combined railroad and trucking services to get freight to its destination as quickly as possible.
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Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe Railway Company's piggy-back trailers