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To: No Truce With Kings

Still it would suck trying to haul thousands of containers through that traffic. There is a rail line that parallels 45 though. Thanks for being an election judge. Lord knows we need them.


108 posted on 08/26/2010 1:33:15 PM PDT by dblshot (Insanity - electing the same people over and over and expecting different results.)
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To: dblshot

“Still it would suck trying to haul thousands of containers through that traffic.”

AFAIK most containers (and cars) being shipped travel by rail to and from a port rather than by truck. The only exceptions would be those with an ultimate destination of less than 100 miles or 1-container shipments to small businesses. Long-haul rail shipment is orders of magnitude cheaper than roadway shipment. If you are a wholesaler or manufacturer in Dallas, getting 20-200 containers at a time, it costs less to put them on a train to Dallas and have your trucks take them to your warehouse from Dallas than to have 20-200 trucks pick them up on the coast and drive them to Dallas. (Now if you are a small software house in Dallas getting a single container of your packaged software made in China, then a trucking it from Houston or Galveston might make sense, but I am not sure.)

So if Galveston had bet heavily on containerization in the 1960s and become *the* container port of the Texas Gulf Coast, I don’t know if you would really have much more truck traffic on I-45 between Galveston and Houston. It mostly would have gone by rail. (Crossing Hwy 3 might be a bear though — with all those extra trains . . . )


111 posted on 08/26/2010 1:52:21 PM PDT by No Truce With Kings (I can see November from my house.)
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