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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by CSSHEGEWISCH Food for thought: How much demand would there be for an all-rail route to Alaska? The competition would consist primarily of the existing steamship lines, the handful of carferry operators and the Alaska Marine Highway (auto ferries). I'm not sure that an all-rail route could get enough traffic to justify the huge initial cost and high M/W costs. [/quote] To take a spin on your comment, how big a difference would a permanent rail line make that went into Alaska and the Canadian North? It could very well open up the North to immigration with more people moving up there to live, and bring down the cost of transporation making it cheaper and easier to live up North.......Who knows what kind of econmoic benefits this could have that would spin off..... Think of it, it could be just like when the Railways first went across North America and the West was settled and is now a very populated, prospering part of North America..... Of course on the other hand perhaps none of this would happen........I know I wouldn't want to live up there..... Build it and they will come [?]
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