Re: BEFORE Trying To Simply Hike the Fuel Tax . . .

On May 4, 1:05=A0pm, "daestrom" <daestrom@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On May 3, 5:40 pm, Day Brown <daybr...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > HarryNadds wrote:
> > > What "more efficient" ways are you referring to? Rail? ****p? Carrier
> > > pidgeon? You think long haul trucks are part of the problem?? You
> > > willing to put thousands of truck drivers out of a job??
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> > What would make more sense would be to nationalize the railroad right
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> > way so that it would be owned and maintained by the government the
same
> > as the highways, waterways, and air****ts.
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> > Then- permit investors to go into business with the running gear in an
> > open, and competitive free market rather than the regulated system the
> > massive rail cor****ations now have.
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> > Moreover, convert the rails to a new wide track design that could go
> > much faster and carry loads wider than a box car. In this case, they
> > could piggie back truck trailers or freighter containers side by side
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> > flat cars, or use the flat cars to carry your car, at high speed,
cross
> > country. You could drive on a flatcar at the station, with the
driver's
> > side facing the front of the train, then drive off at your
destination.
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> Widing the rails isn't really going to be practical. =A0There are
literall=
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> thousands of tunnels and millions of bridges both large and small that
wou=
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> *not* accept wider rolling stock.
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> And to do as you suggest, it isn't really necessary. =A0'Trailer-Trains'
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ave
> been around for decades and they allow driving tractor trailers right on
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> specially designed flat-bed cars that have short ramps that can be
lowered=

> to connect the cars together. =A0Trucks are driven on backward from one
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> and can drive the length of the train until reaching the desired
flat-car.=

> This was in the mid 70's. =A0These 'Trailer-Trains' can be off/on loaded
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> a minimal of facilities. =A0Just need a ramp that leads up to the right
> elevation at the end of a railroad spur.
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> The more common version now that replaces 'Trailer-Trains' is the
> inter-modal container. =A0Standardized containers are off-loaded from
****p=
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> and put onto semi-tractor trailers -or- train cars directly. =A0But
these
> require overhead container-cranes to lift and load the containers
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> referred to as 'sea-vans' IIRC).
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Please don't hit a liberal with facts. Their eyeballs roll back in
their heads and they go into having convulsions. Please stay with the
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