Alt fuels was Re: [AT] Gasoline $

[Tom Yasnowski]

Cecil,
Your not referring to the shipping containers on flatcars are you?  I'm 
talking about
bonafide truck trailers with wheels and all that I see on trains. Wouldnt 
make sense to load these
on ships- waste too much space -- thats what the containers are for.  But 
hey what do I know, Im not in the transport biz.  But if trains make more 
economic sense for everything then it will come back.  Business is in it to 
make money and the most cost effective usually wins out overall.


>From: Cecil Monson <cmonson at hvc.rr.com>
>Reply-To: Antique tractor email discussion group 
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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 13:00:51 -0400
>
>>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.
>
>
>	Take a 2000 mile trip on any of our interstate highways some
>time and count the tractor trailers hauling long haul these days. I
>have spent lots of time on the road and see more tractor trailers than
>I do cars some days. Sure, we know about rail box shipping and inter
>modal shipping but what we see here is mostly on it's way overseas via
>seaports than destined for cross country rail shipping. The tip-off
>to this is you don't see many unloading and delivery facilities for
>inter-modal shipping except at seaports - like Newark, NJ, as a for
>instance, and those trailers come off the rail cars and are directly
>loaded on to ships.
>
>Cecil
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