Alt fuels was Re: [AT] Gasoline $

[Tom Yasnowski]

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>
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>Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 8:31 AM
>Subject: Re: Alt fuels was Re: [AT] Gasoline $
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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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