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The railroad is a good idea, but the concerns on throughput are real. If it’s a single-track railroad, your consist length (at least in one direction) will be
by CaliforniaKarl 2y ago
The railroad is a good idea, but the concerns on throughput are real. If it’s a single-track railroad, your consist length (at least in one direction) will be limited by the length of sidings. Every rail car heading east will inevitably head west (to pick up containers).
It’s a big operation, putting together a new container-oriented freight railroad, and I hope it goes well!
- IncreasePosts 2y agoI'm also curious how security will be handled. 300km, mostly through middle-of-nowhere, with potentially high value cargo seems like organized crime's bread and butter
- adolph 2y agoIt seemed to work well in Fast Five until there was a plot twist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_Five https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_Five
- wolverine876 2y agoOrganized crime doesn't want attention from people with power to cause them problems.
- IncreasePosts 2y agoI'll have to assume you aren't too familiar with Mexico then.
- pphysch 2y agoScaling a railway (horizontally and vertically) is a lot more doable than scaling a canal, right?
- kmlx 2y agodepends on the scale factor. can you scale it 10x to match the canal? probably not.
- marcosdumay 2y agoWell, the point is moot, because you can't scale the canal either.