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Instead of trains, how about a motorized chassis per-container - with electric motors like subway cars - with little space between containers, and fan-in and fa
by euroderf 3y ago
Instead of trains, how about a motorized chassis per-container - with electric motors like subway cars - with little space between containers, and fan-in and fan-out at the ends to re-sort containers into different ships.
It sounds impractical, but so does marshaling all the trucks and trains to get the very same containers from the original shippers to the ports of origin and from the ports of destination to the final recipients.
- fransje26 3y agoHa! You could get a 300 km perpetual snake-train of motorized chassis following each other. And they could hit the 40 km/h traveling speeds of the current American freight trains, no problem (such a low bar..) Could be done, I guess. The high-speed tracks in Europe are protected with fences, and have no level crossings, so the same could be done here to have a fully-automatic motorized wagon system. Without locomotive you would need a third-rail electricity pick-up system. Less safe, but the track is fenced off, so why not?