Alt fuels was Re: [AT] Gasoline $

Tom Yasnowski tomyasnowski at hotmail.com
Thu Aug 11 11:58:16 PDT 2005


http://www.jbhunt.com/what_we_do/intermodal/rail_network.html

>From: Cecil Monson <cmonson at hvc.rr.com>
>Reply-To: Antique tractor email discussion group 
><at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>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
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>trucks.  My town has trains coming thru every 20 minutes. See these all the
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>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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