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Re: Future rail line on the new Tappan Zee Bridge is a dud? |
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Posted by AlM on Sun Aug 25 14:41:23 2013, in response to Re: Future rail line on the new Tappan Zee Bridge is a dud?, posted by Jackson Park B Train on Sun Aug 25 14:23:45 2013. Rail freight never works for truly time-sensitive stuff like fresh food. With trucks, you just assemble a truck load and drive it as far as you need to. With rail, you have to assemble a whole train load, and of course that whole train load isn't all going to go to the same place. So you have to stop at yards from time to time to reassemble the train.But what percentage of stuff is so time sensitive that an extra day matters? Fresh vegetables and meat, sure, but otherwise not too much. |
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