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That's supposing the railway is filled bumper-to-bumper with 100 km/h freight trains. More like a conveyor belt than a railway.
by dmurray 6y ago
That's supposing the railway is filled bumper-to-bumper with 100 km/h freight trains. More like a conveyor belt than a railway.
- mavhc 6y agoGiven automation it's not far off what's possible. Obviously you'd have multiple tracks for slower parts and loading/unloading. Main problems would be politics and mountains.
- fulafel 6y agoBut if the rail is a shipping channel replacement, no need to limit to one track. Or if we are comparing to a busy port like eg Rotterdam, that also corresponds to a nexus of many shipping routes which would be equivalent to several tracks.
- yellowapple 6y ago> But if the rail is a shipping channel replacement, no need to limit to one track. By this analogy, no need to limit to one port, either. But even this analogy doesn't quite hold true, because tracks v. ports are apples v. oranges. The proper comparisons here would be tracks v. navigation routes and ports v. rail depots.
- fulafel 6y agoSure. Upthread the concern was about rail bottlenecks being one track.