Alt fuels was Re: [AT] Gasoline $

[charlie hill]

That's right Tom.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Yasnowski" <tomyasnowski at hotmail.com>
To: <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 11:49 AM
Subject: Re: Alt fuels was Re: [AT] Gasoline $


> Apparently you folks havent heard of "inter-modal" shipping?  They put the 
> trailers on flatcars and take them long distance for local delivery by 
> trucks.  My town has trains coming thru every 20 minutes. See these all 
> the time.
>
>
>>From: Ralph Goff <alfg at sasktel.net>
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>>To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>>Subject: Re: Alt fuels was Re: [AT] Gasoline $
>>Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 09:34:22 -0600
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>>----- Original Message ----- From: "Cecil Monson" <cmonson at hvc.rr.com>
>>To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" 
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>>Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 8:31 AM
>>Subject: Re: Alt fuels was Re: [AT] Gasoline $
>>
>>
>>>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.
>>
>>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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