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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.
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: Between 1950 and 1985
Item Number: 50198
Call Number: ATSF Series 2, #508.114
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 50198
Business and Industry - Railroad - Companies - Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Business and Industry - Railroad - Rolling stock - Flatcars
Business and Industry - Trucking and freighting
Collections - Photograph - Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Date - 1950s
Date - 1960s
Date - 1970s - 1970
Date - 1970s - 1971
Date - 1970s - 1972
Date - 1970s - 1973
Date - 1970s - 1974
Date - 1970s - 1975
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Transportation - Intermodal
Transportation - Railroads - Companies - Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Transportation - Railroads - Rolling stock - Flatcars
Transportation - Trucks
Type of Material - Photographs
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