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by missedthecue 1531 days ago
I saw Amazon branded shipping containers on a freight train just the other week
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Could those have been intermodal containers, each of which will eventually be hauled on a tractor trailer?
Some containers go right from boat to rail, or maybe moved around the yard at the port to go from the boat to rail. Amazon may also have warehouses serviced by rail spurs, and not have to use trucking to get their containers from a rail terminal. I don't know if they do, but certainly some containers don't see any road on the way from the shipper to the receiver.