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The advent of gas, diesel, gas-electric, and diesel-electric motive power allowed railroads to stop keeping little steam engines maintained for routes with few passengers or goods. Put a truck motor on the front end of a passenger car and drive a single unit to all of those jerkwater stops.

Traction companies, also, profited by being able to field vehicles when the catenary wires were out of order, or to use non-electrified lines to connect electrified segments.SEE AND READ MUCH MORE AT https://familygardentrains.com/primer/rolling_stock/railbus/railbuses.htm

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