Alt fuels was Re: [AT] Gasoline $

[Mark Greer]

If the whole damn country wasn't in such a rush all the time we wouldn't be
stuck with the idea that we need JIT delivery. Maybe if we all slowed up
just a bit and lived a slightly less frantic pace.........
Mark

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "charlie hill" <chill8 at cox.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 12:27 PM
Subject: Re: Alt fuels was Re: [AT] Gasoline $


> 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
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Ralph Goff" <alfg at sasktel.net>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
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> Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 11:34 AM
> Subject: Re: Alt fuels was Re: [AT] Gasoline $
>
>
> >
> > ----- 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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