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My very rural town has a rail line pass through, and it was once the main means of moving people and goods to neighboring towns. But those services were discon
by voakbasda 5y ago
My very rural town has a rail line pass through, and it was once the main means of moving people and goods to neighboring towns. But those services were discontinued decades ago, and now the line only hauls lumber and similar bulk industrial goods.
I would love to see passenger and freight service available here again, and I feel that this could be something capable of providing that kind of service. Assuming the existing line owner would allow it. I doubt that happens without a truly epic business plan, which I’m not seeing here.
I want to be enthusiastic about this idea, but this will be an uphill battle on multiple fronts (as other commenters here have opined more pointedly).
It’s hard to hope for something that seems impossible. I think it a safer bet to expect horses genetically modified with narwhal DNA that produces a tusk on their foreheads.
- bobthepanda 5y agoI think my biggest concern is "platooning" instead of coupling. It only takes one car going slightly out of the sync to become a Very Big Problem (a lot of train accidents have happened via a full or part train going runaway). It almost certainly would not get regulatory approval, particularly in the US where the FRA is very "my way or the highway" when it comes to new things, or standards that were NIH.