Alt fuels was Re: [AT] Gasoline $

[charlie hill]

The problem with the railroads is that manufactured products, parts and 
produce are all delivered "just in time" these days.  That cuts down on 
inventory costs and allows the market to react to demand changes must faster 
that was ever possible before.   Trains can't do just in time delivery.  It 
takes trucks.  Stuff that can effectively move on the  rails, raw materials, 
etc. still do.

Charlie
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From: "Ralph Goff" <alfg at sasktel.net>
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Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 11:34 AM
Subject: Re: Alt fuels was Re: [AT] Gasoline $


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> From: "Cecil Monson" <cmonson at hvc.rr.com>
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>> One thing is such a shame that it has bothered me for years.
>> At one time we had the finest railroad system in the world and we have
>> allowed it to be almost totally dismantled except for mainline freight
>> and high speed rail commuter networks. Instead of one or two locomotives
>> pulling 150 cars of freight, we now have 150 trucks, each with it's own
>> diesel engine, pulling one truck apiece.
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> My thoughts exactly Cecil. I wondered when somebody would mention the 
> railways. When I was a kid it was a rarity to see a big semi hauling 
> anything. Trains were the way everything was moved. With a well developed 
> rail system serving all the small towns and cities we moved people and 
> commodities efficiently and didn't clog up the highways with big trucks.
> Surely it must take less diesel fuel to move a train of multiple grain 
> cars on the railway than to have hundreds (thousands?) of tractor trailer 
> units each hauling a thousand bushels or so.
> Our local rail line has not seen a train pass by in several years and is 
> scheduled for closure and eventual removal. The wooden grain elevators are 
> all gone. No need for the trains to stop by anymore.
>
> Ralph in Sask.
> http://lgoff.sasktelwebsite.net/
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