Thanks. I try.
The rails have been storing grain cars for when demand picks up, it will take no effort to pull them off storage tracks.
How much effort will it take to repair the 2 main rail lines that get taken out by sleeper cells from Michigan?
30 days? 2 weeks? 5 days?
And where are the wave of extra truck drivers and dispatchers who are going to be required to make up the backlog going to come from? The trucking companies are going under at a rate of several per *week*.
There are 3 days max worth of supplies in most American cities. Without trucks to move product to and from the railway depots, America dies.
How's that for hyperbole?
...You also ignored barge capacity.
Pfft, dude, barge capacity requires paid staff to navigate it. The empty merchantile floatilla is growing daily. One more CIT-level event, and you've got half the shipping companies in America unable to make payroll. How many crews are going to work for free, and for how long?
Sorry, I stand by my analysis of the fragility of the food supply: Transport undercut by economic instability.
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