Will my Hudson #5340 operate on lionel 036 curve track?

I imagine that the situation in the USA is very much like here in the UK: it is usually cheaper and quicker to use road transport for single loads. Here, complete locomotives are often loaded onto heavy haulage rigs for transport to the workshops. An alternative explanation may be that the loads you have seen were railroad scrap being hauled away by the scrap merchant.

These components are often shipped to machine shops for maintenance and rebuilding. These shops may not be on the rail lines.

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