Excellent idea regarding the emergency staples supplied on the trains. Have you heard of this being suggested as a plan or are you and I the only ones in the world to think of this......?
FEMA already owns nearly a THOUSAND Indiana-built "Road-Railers", a semi-trailer that can be hauled as a train car, and takes about 90 seconds to go from Trailer-to Car...
They have these filled and prepositioned in many places, but it still takes TIME to get them, arrange transport, havee trucks (with Fuel) meet them on the other end, and someplace to stage and unload them!
Somebody told me yesterday that her mother was involved in something to do with NO evacuation plans 40 years ago, and they included trains. It's pretty obvious that NO didn't have trains in their mix this time.
I'm guessing that a lot of people haven't given much thought to trains these days, having never been around when riding the train was the common man's version of taking a plane.