Alt fuels was Re: [AT] Gasoline $

[charlie hill]

Tom it will be hard for a lot of the rail to come back.  In my area about 
50% of the rail has been abandoned, the rails ripped up and the R/W given 
back to the adjoining land owners.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Yasnowski" <tomyasnowski at hotmail.com>
To: <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 2:51 PM
Subject: Re: Alt fuels was Re: [AT] Gasoline $


> 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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