Australia Tried Pulling Trains With Semi Trucks. Here’s How That Went

Your average pickup truck might be able to tow a few tons, but a semi-truck can tow close to 30. A train car, though, is another order of magnitude heavier still, with some exceeding 150 tons. Using, say, a semi-truck to tow train cars seems like as good an idea as trying to move a manufactured home with a pickup. But that’s just what one Australian railroad did in a pinch, and it worked better than you’d imagine. Mostly, anyway, because the adaptation had problems that might not be the ones you expect.

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