AMTRAK and SPYDERS or other TRIKES
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Originally Posted by
Vidman
The last thread started by Bob Denham back in Nov 2016 seems to have disappeared.
My question is this....Has anyone been able to find if Amtrak is truly working with their third party carrier manufacturer for a solution? I am finding myself in the need for this in Nov of this year. Any info would be appreciated.
I have not been able to find someone at Amtrak to say anything except, "We do not allow Spyders or SlingShot vehicles...".
Have you seen the video of them loading the train ???? ...... it has at least 8 or more train cars .... they load the passenger vehicles by driving them on ....through all the train cars until they get the front .... then they load another pass car, etc until the lower deck is full..... then they do the same for the upper deck ...... the veh's drive on ramps between train cars ..... there are ONLY two ramps ...... so the third wheel of a Trike has nothing to travel on ...... the cost of making an adjustment for TRIKES would be HUGH ...... and train employees do the driving for all loading and un-loading ...... just the Driver training would prohibitive. So this ain't ever going to happen ................. Mike :thumbup: