{"id":44553,"date":"2026-06-28T06:21:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T10:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=44553"},"modified":"2026-06-27T22:34:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T02:34:42","slug":"jb-hunt-stacks-on-the-roll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/jb-hunt-stacks-on-the-roll\/","title":{"rendered":"JB Hunt Stacks on the Roll"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Modern Class I freight railroading is often a story told through double-stacked containers riding in articulated well cars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thirty-five years ago, JB Hunt was a newcomer to the railroads. I still remember the novelty of seeing JB Hunt trailers aboard Santa Fe piggyback trains in the California Tehachapis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, Norfolk Southern moves mile-long trains of JB Hunt containers, stacked two high, along the Susquehanna River.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What these containers are carrying remains a mystery\u2014perhaps everything from powdered laundry detergent to Chinese-made electronics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"315\" data-attachment-id=\"44555\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/jb-hunt-stacks-on-the-roll\/ns_double-stacks_at_cove_pa_dsc_6379\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/NS_double-stacks_at_Cove_PA_DSC_6379.jpg?fit=2048%2C1363\" data-orig-size=\"2048,1363\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" 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Thirty-five years ago, JB Hunt was a newcomer to the railroads. I still remember the novelty of seeing JB Hunt trailers aboard Santa Fe piggyback trains in the California Tehachapis. Today, Norfolk Southern moves mile-long trains of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/jb-hunt-stacks-on-the-roll\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">JB Hunt Stacks on the Roll<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44557,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6060,10,6108,48],"tags":[8688,8690,5383],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/NS_double-stacks_at_Cove_PA_DSC_6382.jpg?fit=2048%2C1256","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-bAB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44553"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44553"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44558,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44553\/revisions\/44558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}