[Alberta's Child]

The economics of the railroad industry is such that a railroad would rarely be able to price a load competitively over a distance of less than 400 miles anyway. One of the things driving this is that very few industrial sites that get containerized cargo have rail sidings, so the load is going to have to be transferred to a truck at the end of the rail trip anyway.

For most commodities, putting a load on a train for a 50-mile trip is like taking an airline flight to a destination you can reach in a car in 90 minutes.

[a fool in paradise]

Overnight in the midwest is a see of thousands of trucks making a long haul. And the trucks include mexico and canada.

You’ve always had to offload hopper cars, tankers, or cargo to trucks.

Should we also have floating trucks since ports are distant from consumers?