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Why do railroads run intermodal so fast?
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As a slight variation on the above, here's one of those too-good-to-be-true but by-golly-may-well-be-true riddles. <br /> <br />I've been told that the shipment of stacks trans-Pacific west to east and then U.S. continental west to east (i.e., China and other MFN's sending stuff to U.S. population centers)--that there are fewer stax going back west than were shipped east. <br /> <br />I for one would expect to find EMPTY stax going back home--after all, Intermodals resemble in some ways a unit train for high-margin consumer goods--but supposedly some of the Chinese containers are not exactly built for the ages and the shippers will let the end-users just keep the empties for their own uses. <br /> <br />Any experience of that out there? I am in the meantime keeping my eye peeled for demolition dumpsters that say "K. Line" or "P&O". <br /> <br />al-in-chgo
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