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Gig 601XL Builder wrDOTgiaconaATsuddenlink.net wrote:
Wolfgang Schwanke wrote: About the wonders of electic trains.

Yes it is the American persepctive but you need to realize a little more
American perspective.

The distances here are just plain longer than what you are dealing with in
Europe. The straight line distance between Paris and Berlin ~450 miles. In
the US that would get you from New York to Detroit. To get to Los Angles
you'd have to go another 1900 miles. Which is further than the distance from
either the Northern tip of Denmark to the Southern end of Italy or from
Gibralter to the Polish border.

Would it be nice to have electric rail serving the majority of the US, hell
yes, but after WWII we decided a huge highway system would be the way to go
and it served us well and help make the US the worlds largest economy. But
trying to install an electric rail system now would be next to impossible.
It has become alost impossible to add to the interstate system we already
have.

And there is one big plus to highways over rail. We don't grind to a halt
every time a single union goes out on strike.

And trucks can go over mountains that trains can't, which the US has
a lot of.


--
Jim Pennino

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And trucks can go over mountains that trains can't, which the US has
a lot of.

Trains cross the Rockies every day. What other mountains did you have in
mind?

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And trucks can go over mountains that trains can't, which the US has
a lot of.

Trains cross the Rockies every day. What other mountains did you have in
mind?

Why, you gonna go out and scale them, fjukkwit?


Bertie

Mxsmanic wrote:
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And trucks can go over mountains that trains can't, which the US has
a lot of.

Trains cross the Rockies every day. What other mountains did you have in
mind?

Hot flash for you; there are only a few places through the Rockies
where you can get a shallow enough grade for trains to make it.

There are lots of places through the Rockies where trucks can go
through.

--
Jim Pennino

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Hot flash for you; there are only a few places through the Rockies
where you can get a shallow enough grade for trains to make it.

There are lots of places through the Rockies where trucks can go
through.


Doesn't Europe have some Alps and stuff like that -- don't they use a
concept called tunnels???

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Hot flash for you; there are only a few places through the Rockies
where you can get a shallow enough grade for trains to make it.

There are lots of places through the Rockies where trucks can go
through.


Doesn't Europe have some Alps and stuff like that -- don't they use a
concept called tunnels???

Like everyone else, only if they absolutely have to as tunnel are
expensive.

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Jim Pennino

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Like everyone else, only if they absolutely have to as tunnel are
expensive.

They are. But building a highway system with all the accessories you
need to keep it running isn't exactly a bargain either. And that
includes tunnelsl actually.

But the highway system is already built. It's not a comparison of
two alternatives (highway vs rail) starting from a clean sheet of paper.

--
Bob Noel
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And trucks can go over mountains that trains can't, which the US has
a lot of.
Trains cross the Rockies every day. What other mountains did you have in
mind?

Hot flash for you; there are only a few places through the Rockies
where you can get a shallow enough grade for trains to make it.

There are lots of places through the Rockies where trucks can go
through.

--
Jim Pennino

I have seen where they put truck trailers on top of rail cars. Does
this increase the number of accesible passes for trains

F. Baum wrote:

And trucks can go over mountains that trains can't, which the US has
a lot of.
Trains cross the Rockies every day. What other mountains did you have in
mind?

Hot flash for you; there are only a few places through the Rockies
where you can get a shallow enough grade for trains to make it.

There are lots of places through the Rockies where trucks can go
through.

--
Jim Pennino

I have seen where they put truck trailers on top of rail cars. Does
this increase the number of accesible passes for trains

No, you have to put the train on top of the truck.

It's the wheels, even with sand.

--
Jim Pennino

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Hot flash for you; there are only a few places through the Rockies
where you can get a shallow enough grade for trains to make it.

You don't need that many places.