Ingleside may be test site for new freight transport system

Corpus Christi Caller-Times ^ | November 11, 2007 | Fanny S. Chirinos

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Shuttle graphics are included in original article.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Trans-Texas Corridor PING!

[the invisib1e hand]

maglev is so cool.

[Rb ver. 2.0]

Long distance trucking won’t exist 100 years from now.

[Recon Dad]

I like it!

[Chief Engineer]

It looks to me that this guy is sucking at the government teat to re-invent the railroad.

Railroads move cargo for a lot less than $ .10 per mile

Railroads can move one ton of freight for 600 miles on 1 gallon of Diesel

[maine-iac7]

most likely in highway medians

interesting concept = one of my sons is a long hauler - he says the highways are chock-a-block trucks...too many...we were just talking about the over-congestion and that something needs to be done asap

He wouldn't mind it going in the other direction - and picking up containers at the ports is a bottle neck nightmare...

[Chief Engineer]

The infrastructure cost would be unbelievable, even before you consider all of the environmental nonsense.

[SwinneySwitch]

Ping!

If you want on, or off this S. Texas/Mexico ping list, please FReepMail me.

[maine-iac7]

Railroads move cargo for a lot less than $ .10 per mile

Railroads were all but killed starting 50 years ago - thanks to the teamsters...

had that not happened, we'd have a balance today of rail and road -

[Chief Engineer]

Railroads are moving more freight today than ever before. They are increasing their capacity to accommodate the increase.

The railroads are doing this almost entirely with private, non government funds. (An then they pay taxes on it!)

We don’t need the government to get involved in this. Let the private sector do what it can do so well.

[basil]

Everybody seems to be assuming that the Trans TX Corridor is a done deal.

[maine-iac7]

(railroads)We don’t need the government to get involved in this

I hope I didn't imply I thought they should - I'm a federalist - or Frederalist - I'm also an Atlas Shrugged fan - and read the book 50 years ago -

I'm also a columnist and have a column ready to go on the latest nanny-state scheme - to enforce everyone to use only CFL's by 2012, like it or not and to hell with free markets

[Chief Engineer]

He is talking about the median in the Interstate Highways.

Thats government!

[mtbopfuyn]

So, a more expensive railroad?

[mtbopfuyn]

Can’t wait for all the hoopla when they decide this new railroad will have to be routed through someone’s backyard.

[Ben Ficklin]

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Exploring a 21st Century Alternative for Container Transport

[Balding_Eagle]

Railroads can move one ton of freight for 600 miles on 1 gallon of Diesel

I've had the opportunity to push a loaded boxcar, by hand, a time or two. Obviously they are hard to get started, but once they are rolling it doesn't take much at all to keep them going.

One gallon of diesel for 600 miles is very believable.

The rail line along I-25 south of Castle Rock CO carries about 25 loaded coal trains each day, each more than a mile long. I never ceased to be amazed at the engineering that makes such a train possible. They are truly awesome.

[Balding_Eagle]

Why use an automated system when there are so many Mexicans who will willingly hike through the desert just to pilot trucks AMericans refuse to pilot?

I know that that is so close to real life that I have to say that the above is sarcasm.

[org.whodat]

The infrastructure cost would be unbelievable, even before you consider all of the environmental nonsense.

I think unbelievable in this case is an understatement.