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> Rail can only carry objects that can fit inside the cross-section and streets aren't much better. Trains typically carry the same intermodal containers that
by boomlinde 7y ago
> Rail can only carry objects that can fit inside the cross-section and streets aren't much better.
Trains typically carry the same intermodal containers that cargo ships do.
- usrusr 7y agoThat answers GP's "how do you drive a container ship over land" but we seem agree that container transport is a solved problem that airships can't meaningfully contribute to. But there are objects that don't fit the rail profile that still need transportation. And a lot more objects that don't fit that profile, or the more generous limitations of an oversize road load, that could exists if matching overland transportation existed. A lot of technology is severely size-constrained only because roads between factory and deployment site are size constrained. A cargo airship that can take those loads could completely change whole industries.