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Re: Amtrak cancelations for Sunday 7th |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Mon Feb 8 22:48:15 2010, in response to Re: Amtrak cancelations for Sunday 7th, posted by WillD on Mon Feb 8 00:15:04 2010. Freight railroads here in the US only compete because their cargo is not as time critical and the distance is so great that the lower cost per mile creates greater savings relative to trucks. Europe, especially within the western European nations themselves, are markets in which it is difficult to take full advantage of intermodal transit. Transloading times in intermodal yards make up a greater percentage of the trip time, and the cost differential is smaller because the distances involved are in general smallerI dunno . . . SNCF's "Fret" runs some long trains, as do SJ and DB. Also over here, rail freight keeps losing its market share to trucks. I would have thought the UPS transcon would have gotten off the ground (so to speak), but that was stillborn. But these evil state run railroads *did* replace the MP54s, and they did so for the most part within 10 years of the government takeover Not SEPTA. Their doggedness bordered on the remarkable. Nor NJDOT; they were still running MP54s into the mid-70s. LIRR would be the one, I'd say; although they did run some on the diesel lines as the "ping-pong" cars (for how long, I forget). |
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