Alt fuels was Re: [AT] Gasoline $

Bill Thompson spud_thompson at toleartist.com
Thu Aug 11 11:20:36 PDT 2005


Charlie , back in the sixties, when I worked on the railroad , they called 
it piggy back, good Idea


Bill "Spud" Thompson
Katahdin Valley Farm
Sherman Mills, Maine
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "charlie hill" <chill8 at cox.net>
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Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 12:28 PM
Subject: Re: Alt fuels was Re: [AT] Gasoline $


> That's right Tom.
>
> Charlie
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> From: "Tom Yasnowski" <tomyasnowski at hotmail.com>
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>> 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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>>>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
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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.
>>>
>>>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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