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To: MrEdd

If trains were equal or superior, there would not be trucks.

Trains are not suited for the task trucks do.


33 posted on 02/17/2018 5:09:21 AM PST by Thibodeaux (The FISA judge is corrupt)
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To: Thibodeaux

Yup. Trucks get things from a railhead to a place not along a railway much better than trains. For shipping freight long distaces trains are orders of magnitude more efficient especially when you look at the cost of maintaining a rail line versus an asphalt road for the same weight of freight being carried

Here is a thought.

You try actually researching history and learn about the punitive taxation and regulation heaped upon the rail industry during FDR’s administration designed to make trucks competitive.

Vast ignorance on your part does not in any way invalidate the point I made.


60 posted on 02/17/2018 9:41:20 AM PST by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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