This 1970s rail car designed for the Chevrolet Vega was an incredible feat of transportation engineering.
and the transportation sector had to make adjustments to accommodate the increasing demand for shipping. Nowhere was this more evident in the US automobile industry as Americans flush with cash purchased new cars as a symbol of their place in the burgeoning middle class.
The increased demand for automobiles around the country meant that packing more cars into rail cars became of paramount importance. Exiting boxcars were modified with wider doors, longer cars, and other similar adjustments. It wasn't enough to keep up with demand, however, and new railcars needed to be constructed to keep pace with the automobiles rolling off the assembly lines.
In the 1950s, German engineers came up with a two-level railcar for their Volkswagen Beetle that soon became a model for auto-transport the world over. Then, by the early 1960s, specially designed auto carriers were developed that were able to load as many as three levels of passenger car, or two levels for light trucks and vans.
One of the more concerning issues with these railcars, however, was theft, vandalism, and incidental damage. Several innovations were introduced to try and address this problem, but the solution that General Motors and Southern Pacific Railroad came up within the late 1960s was a sight to behold.
The result was a railcar that shipped Chevrolet Vegas standing upright with their nose pointed straight down. Since the cars were designed to be driven right off the rail car and onto a dealer's lot, they were shipped with gasoline, oil, and all of the fluids necessary for the normal operation of the vehicle. As a result, the entire car had to be designed to keep the fluids in the car while they were being shipped.
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