Auto-rack revolution

Auto-rack revolution

By Angela Cotey | March 16, 2021

| Last updated on August 7, 2025


Automobiles being loaded on tri-level freight cars

By the early 1960s, railroads began reclaiming auto traffic from highway trucks with long two- and three-level auto racks on flatcars. Here, new Thunderbirds and other Fords are loaded aboard a Western Pacific tri-level car built by ACF.

American Car & Foundry

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