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Why don't I see truck trains anymore?

When I was a kid my dad and I used to go up the street and watch it go by, but as I got older I saw less of them, now I don't see them at allIf you can please help me out and be very specific in your awnswer, cause my dad is wondering what happend to them.

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I am one of those people below a certain age, but I do rememberwell dangactually I don't remember anything from back thenI just remember that in preschool I had a friend named page and she cried a lot.
Yesbut I remember better a wicked step-father a huge sports fan, who found I made a good improver of TV signal if I touched both ends of the rabbit earsI had the biggest shoulders in my school.
I tell my kids they don't know how good they have itWhen I was a kid, I was the remote control as well as the antennaMy dad would make me get up to change the channel for himI remember once, when I was moving the rabbit ears, the picture would get fuzzy as I walked awayAs long as I was touching them, the picture was clearMy dad made me stand next to the TV, holding the rabbit ears until the ball game was over.
Piggy Back trains are gone now because they have been replaced with shipping containersSo in a way they do exist, because the containers are lifted by crane and placed on a frame that a truck can pull just like a trailerThis way things can be loaded at one end into a container shipped by many different combinations of air, rail, and sea transportation with out a need to repack them.

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