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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
UPS is one of the users of the railroad. They literally put their truck trailers on flatbed rail cars. So your package from Amazon could literally take a train, a plane and a truck before it reaches your house.
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Amazon has been buying trailers they pack themselves and contract with ttucking companies to move the trailers as "black box" loads. It hasn't been mentioned but there is no reason they couldn't ship the trailers by rail, too.
For that matter, if the regulatory hurdles ever get settled, those trailers could be moved via self-driving robot trucks between robotic warehouses. Untouched by human hands.