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Hemmings Motor News has been around since 1954. We're proud of our heritage, but we're also more than the Hemmings full of classifieds that your father subscribed to. Aside from new editorial content every month in Hemmings, we have three monthly magazines: Hemmings Muscle Machines, Hemmings Classic Car and Hemmings Sports and Exotic Car.

While our editors traverse the country to find the best content for those magazines, we find other oddities related to the old-car hobby that we really had no place for - until now. With this blog, we're giving you a behind-the-scenes look at what we see and what we do during the course of putting out some of the finest automotive magazines you'll ever read.

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Cars That Run on Rails

Posted July 19, 2008 12:01 AM by dstrohl

So far in these SIA Flashbacks, we've seen Cars that Swim, Cars that Fly, and now another cross-pollination of cars and other modes of transportation - Cars That Run On Rails. Now, if only there were a history of Cars That Floated Like Hovercraft and Cars That Jet Into Outer Space (and don't forget Cars That Intentionally Submerge), we'd have all our bases covered. Anyway. Whereas today, we mostly see full-size trucks and SUVs with railrider conversions, back in the Twenties, railroad companies used cars for such conversions. The story appeared in SIA #26, January-February 1975.

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07/21/2008 5:41 PM

You betcha - I've seen cars, pickups, Jeeps, all with rail conversions. Most of them for inspectors and work crews. I haven't seen one in awhile, wonder if they don't use 'em anymore?

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07/25/2008 3:27 PM

Just answered my own question - saw a pickup truck just yesterday ridin' the rails spraying (apparently) weed killer.

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