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2.6 Million Dollers for a Little Book Train at New York Public Library that is 965 feet long?

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2.6 Million Dollers for a Little Book Train at New York Public Library that is 965 feet long?
Posted by CandOforprogress2 on Thursday, September 29, 2016 12:19 PM

Now for 2.6 Million could a G Scale train layout do the same job?

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/speedy-wall-crawling-conveyor-system-will-now-deliver-books-new-york-public-library-180960549/?no-ist

In early October, The New York Public Library will unveil a new book delivery system that features 24 cars, running on 950-feet of vertical and horizontal track, moving millions of books through 11 different levels of the library, at a rate of 75 feet per minute. This new $2.6 million book transport system replaces a clunkier old one where “boxes of research materials were placed on a series of conveyor belts.”

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