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Posted by dadiOH on March 30, 2008, 3:00 pm
gas wrote:
> On the other hand, shifting distribution to send freight by train to
> major population centers (or freight centers), and the serving local
> areas by truck from these freight centers would drastically improve
> energy consumption, ...
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Another possibility too: ship the trailers by train (like ship containers),
off load where needed, pick up a tractor and driver.
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Posted by aemeijers on March 30, 2008, 4:14 pm
dadiOH wrote:
> gas wrote:
>
>> On the other hand, shifting distribution to send freight by train to
>> major population centers (or freight centers), and the serving local
>> areas by truck from these freight centers would drastically improve
>> energy consumption, ...
> <snip>
>
> Another possibility too: ship the trailers by train (like ship containers),
> off load where needed, pick up a tractor and driver.
>
Don't watch many trains go by, do you? Around here, that is already
dirt-common. There are sea-train boxes delivered to factories and
industrial parks around here that haven't been opened since they left
China or wherever. Don't know the handling steps on that end, but here
in CONUS they are offloaded in a port, many times directly to
purpose-built rail cars, and go cross-country by train to nearest rail
yard set up to pull them off and drop them on a matching semitrailer. I
understand some big factories with their own rail spurs can even offload
the containers directly from the trains.
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aem sends...
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Posted by on March 30, 2008, 5:37 pm
wrote:
>Another possibility too: ship the trailers by train (like ship containers),
>off load where needed, pick up a tractor and driver.
They do
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Posted by Edwin Pawlowski on March 30, 2008, 7:11 pm
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> Another possibility too: ship the trailers by train (like ship
> containers), off load where needed, pick up a tractor and driver.
>
It is done often, stacked two high. Check out the show "Railroads" on
Modern Marvels.
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Posted by on April 16, 2008, 10:14 am
On Mar 29, 6:12=A0pm, websu...@cox.net wrote:
>=A0And don't get me started on crop
> subsidies for the farmers themselves. =A0It's a racket.
Don't get started. You wouldn't have a clue what you're talking about.
Without the government subsidizing our farms, you wouldn't have
anything to eat. For 30-odd years, farmers were receiving the same
amount of money for their crops, while the price of equipment, fuel,
fertilizer all rose with inflation... and that was WITH the government
subsidies! It's only recently with the fuel crunch that the prices of
crops have risen to where they should've been all along.
You can't have your cheap food and no government subsidies to farmers.
It's one or the other. Either quit complaining or pay for your food!
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