Exacty. A system that people could use 24-7-365 by individually traveling directly to their destination wrecked havoc on a system where infrequent opportunities to travel were run on a schedule.
Now we're talking of turning the tables on the highways by adding greater speed and greater safety on the side of the rails.
rude drivers nope. rude TRUCKERS... 1983Do you buy an airliner to travel by air? Again, you haven't read the thread. The railcars would, ideally, be government owned operated maintained inspected. That's an ordinary rail system. THIS system works...
Dunno, this would be a taking for public use - and if those fine people in the neighborhoods are not able to get out of their back yards because of $6.00 a gallon gasoline, they'll welcome a system that will lift their Ford Expedition to a height and speed that will get them where they're going in 1-3 the time, at a reasonable price.
Well, no, I was describing simple getting the power to the rail system from the power station. How its distributed to each individual train could be a variety of methods, including catenary or 3rd rail or maybe Disney's buried induction coils that they use to deliver power to some of their rides.
I was thinking of "cargo" as furniture, color TVs, stuff like that - not necessarily coal or iron ore or extremely heavy bulk things.
Probably not - I have no crystal ball, and it wouldn't be the 1st time that something was built out in a completely different way from what the person with the original idea had in mind.
Not sure how the cost would shake out, either. I know for certain that anyone that says its too expensive doesn't know what they're talking about, either. They don't know - its just an easy phrase. Might be too expensive, might not be. The details and problems encountered in the actual development would determine that.
As for door-to-door speed, driving a vehicle onto a railcar, a loading process taking probably less than a minute, and driving it off at the other end and proceeding to one's final destination by driving on roads normally has got to beat anything else now in existence, save the long-haul advantage that 500 mph jet planes have over distances in excess of 600 miles.
Dave Head
