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Date: 16 Apr 2003 16:37:13 GMT
From: davehinznopsamcop.net
Subject: Re: GM to increase SAAB lineup


Someone who looks an awful lot like Mark Gerritsma <nl.autonopsamtmfweb.nld> wrote: > davehinznopsamcop.net <davehinznopsamcop.net> schreef: >> I don't know if trains would work as well for commercial shipping >> here, as they do in say Europe. The distances involved are awfully >> large here. Passenger rail works between, say, Brussels and Paris, >> but from Milwaukee to Denver, it's not a great option. > In this case a bad example , because between Brussels and Paris there > is a high speed rail link (186 mph) between the two cities. High speed > passenger links work up to about 600 mi. If you go beyond that an > airplane would be faster. Yes, but that's my point - the distance makes it less workable in the USA. > Trains do not work well at all for commercial shipping in Europe. At > every border the locomotive has to be replaced (different safety > systems and overhead wire voltages) and especially at transit stations > lots of time is lost. The extra costs of road shipping is usually far > outweighed by the shortenend delivery time. That whole rail size and voltage thing hasn't been standardized _yet_? I'm surprised at that. I believe you, mind you, but I'm just shocked. >> Maybe not >> relevant when you're shipping stuff rather than people, I don't > know. > Goods in transit represent value. This values cannot be use for > something else. Thus you want to limit shipping time to an as short as > possible period. But there also has to be a correlation betweem > shipping time and effort required. Right - that's the nice thing about a free-market economy; the cost in dollars/euros/whatever takes all this into account. If something ends up being cheaper in cash, it's a less costly alternative all-around. Infrastructure costs enter into it as well, but I'm not sure how the cost of maintaining a rail line compare to the costs of maintaining roads, relative to the value of the goods transported on them. The flexibility of a truck being able to go anywhere, vs. a train needing to stay on the rails, may enter into it too. Interesting question. Dave Hinz

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