Re: Adelaide Hills tonnage limit reduced

[Tell <just@hate.spammers.com>]

Perhaps the US railroads have no real alternatives.?
Some of them have some really tough terrain to
traverse, with no viable alternative.
 
They sure can move general freight tonnage the likes of
which we will never see over here.  BUT, ..fuel, motive
power and rolling stock are a whole lot cheaper over
there, not too mention the population base.
  
US rail like Oz does have competition from the
truckies, proportionately, it is as bad there as it is
over here.

....Tell




>"Mark Bau" <mbauco@earthlink.net> wrote:

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> In article <90ctnj$i78$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, ben_scaro@my-deja.com wrote:
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> > Not sure that it's particularly economically viable to have your
> > capital climbing through the Adelaide Hills at 15km/h while trucks race
> > by at 100 km/h- regardless of how well it's coupled.
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> Average speed is what's important, not the speed for a small part of the
> journey. Anyhow, really time sensitive stuff goes in the air, other freight
> needs predictibility in arrival times. A company will swallow an hour or two
> longer transit times if the rate is cheaper and the promised arrival time is
> kept.
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> Here in the US railroads make buckets of money on routes not dissimilar to
> the Adelaide Hills
> 
> Mark