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Trains should haul, trucks should deliver.


27 posted on 02/17/2018 3:09:56 AM PST by niteowl77
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To: niteowl77

“Trains should haul, trucks should deliver.”

So basically you want to triple the rail hubs now in operation?
Talk to the people who live near those rail hubs before you wish.
They hate the increased truck traffic, bobtails waiting for the RR to FINALLY get the trailer to the hub, every trucking company needing a nearby storage yard and so forth and so on.

And when gas taxes go up because truck taxes by mile have been reduced, along with the price of everything hauled by train, you can thank the railroads because they WILL be subsidised by your tax dollars.

Its much more complicated than you think.
If rail was the most effective method of transporting goods trucks would never have gotten a foothold.


48 posted on 02/17/2018 8:01:18 AM PST by oldvirginian ("The people built this country. And it is the people who are making America great again.” D TRUMP)
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