Daryl wrote:Without autos and trucks, a huge number industrial sites, retail sites and residential communities will become totally unviable. Emerson's point about the costs of maintaining roads is valid. It would not suprise me to see major chunks of the interstate system completely abandoned over time. Would be nice to see some high speed maglev trains built on some the old interstate sites.
Cynus wrote:So here's a model for future business success:
1. Buy up old empty retail establishments in downtowns of cities and towns serviced by freight depots.
2. Buy some small hybrid/electric/biodiesel trucks to move goods from depot to the store.
3. Laugh all the way to the bank.
Wildwell wrote:Wal-mart probably does have goods going by rail, somewhere in the logistics chain. America has 42% of inter-city freight on trains.
frankthetank wrote:I don't know about all rail lines, but the ones hauling coal aren't able to keep up with shipments are theres talk of building 200+ miles of track in the N. Plains to ship WY coal. Sometimes when i'm hiking i have to wait for trains to pass to cross...I always see trains full of lumber...mostly from Canada.
Daryl wrote:Everyone's so interlocked these days, if someone tried to unilaterally pull out or alter it, it would be like mutually assured destruction. Globalization is the MAD of the 21st Century.
Volvo is praised for punktlig 8 on the track
The transport company Volvo Logistics is praised of the the European transport organisation EIA for your transport investment off car parts on railway through five countries with a punktlighet [punctuality] on over 95 percents.
Punktligt on the track
Twice about the day, five days in the week go processions average Sweden and the Netherlands, with parts from factories in Olofström, Umeå and Gothenburg to the composition factory in direct.
The procession goes in a rutt that describes a 8, where the waist lies in Älmhult. Processions from the three Swedish towns meet in Älmhult, to be linked together to entire processions, and is transported of Green Cargo to Malmö. There takes Danish Railion over, crosses Denmark via the bridges, leaves over to German and finally to Dutch Railion.
In direct sees one to that the processions with stools and containers once more backspaces to Älmhult. In this “the eighth grade”, that is a part in Volvos Just-in - time - production, follows the goods trains the timetable to over 95 percents, which impressed on the organisation European Intermodal association, that gave Volvo Logistics pinch at the end of the previous year.
The price has now also been noticed of the German railway company Deutsche Bahn, owners to conveyance of goods island clean Schenker Automotive Rail Net, that is responsible for a big part of the transport.
Through transporting just over 50000 containers and 4800 vagnslaster a year on railway relieves Volvo the European road network. Also this impressed on EIA.
Volvo Logistics is an independent transport company that deals with transports to as well Fordägda passenger car producing clean Volvo Cars as the Swedish truck producer Volvo Ltd.
Daryl wrote:Also, don't listen to the doomernomics disciples on these boards. ...Don't worry about the international money flows and theoretical debt imbalances.
TommyJefferson wrote:Daryl wrote:Also, don't listen to the doomernomics disciples on these boards. ...Don't worry about the international money flows and theoretical debt imbalances.
I hope you are correct Daryl. The 8 Trillion dollar US National Debt scares me a LOT.
On a personal level, I have begun riding my motorcycle to city centers around Texas and examining their rail facilities. They are in dirty, unsafe downtown areas.
I think a good long-term investment could be to purchase now-decrepit real estate in areas near rail freight depots.
I'm not clear on this, but I envision myself renting these properties to people who wish to serve the passenger rail market.
Would that be a good investment? My understanding is that rail transportation could be the wave of the future because that mode is so much more energy efficient. Is my thinking correct?
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