That’s why we need to get back to rail. It’s exponentially cheaper.
Also exponentially less flexible.
Define: “cheaper”. What is cheaper to build; a concrete drive or a rail line to every grocery store in America?
So a spur going to every gas station and costco yeah that will happen
If you got it, a truck brought it. There is no changing that. Rail sidings do not back up to the local HomeDepot, Walmart or Grocery store.
You are correct about freight trains having an important role but they are a little farther up the distribution supply chain than trucks and the trains can't replace the trucks.
Is that you, Willie?
“That’s why we need to get back to rail. It’s exponentially cheaper.”
I live in the Palouse region, SE Washington State and adjacent portions of Idaho, where unbelievable tonnages of wheat are grown, plus lesser amounts of several pulse crops (dry peas, lentils, garbanzos), a great deal of which is hauled to Portland by truck and river barge on the Snake/Columbia rivers. Rail service to many small cities in the midst of all this bulk commodity production is being terminated, the rails removed.
In addition, huge amounts of Montana grain are trucked to a Snake River port at Lewiston/Clarkston via Lolo Pass and crooked,curvy U. S. Hwy 12 down the Clearwater River valley. Hard to believe that all this truck transport is more economical than rail.
Is that you Warren Buffet..?
In any case....no trucks = no freight trains.
Since trucks are used to load and unload the freight.
Rail is only good for transporting from producers to distribution hubs...trucks have to to the rest. There is no more efficient method.
That’s why we need to get back to rail. It’s exponentially cheaper.
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Rail is used. But you may want to check behind the stores you frequent. No railstop there.
Trucks have to get it to the places where people actually shop.