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[quote user="TomDiehl"][quote user="futuremodal"][quote user="bobwilcox"][quote user="futuremodal"] .  It is the disconnected reluctance of the railroads that has prevented greater acceptance of the bi-modal concept, not any percieved shortcomings you may envision.  [/quote] Which railroads did this?  When did they do it? Which o/d pairs were involved?[/quote] BNSF.  Not the "evil BNSF" of TD's imagination, but the amoral, albeit illogical corporation.  Swift was extremely please with the success of the I-5 RoadRailer operation over BNSF, and was actually exploring the idea of expanding the RoadRailer idea on other corridors.  Then BNSF decided to jack the rate to an unrealistic amount, and the message to Swift was clear:  BNSF was no longer interested in running RoadRailers at any price - "...oh, and we're so sorry you had invested all that money into RoadRailer vans and bogies without realizing the full depreciation, but hey, whatta ya gonna do?  Take it up with consumer affairs."(?)  As to the why's and whatfor's, you'll have to ask BNSF.  They probably figured they'd get a bigger piece of the freight pie if they could force that traffic into boxcars - apparently they found out they had bought too many new boxcars - or maybe they were trying to strongarm Swift into investing in domestic containers like J.B. Hunt.  Who knows?  Thus the disconnected reluctance. Whether the same scenario applies to the aborted ReeferRailer operation out of California, I don't know, but it's a safe bet that outfit lost their investment bucks as well, even though all parties were profiting at the time. [/quote] The "evil BNSF" of my imagination? You obviously can't read what you just wrote in the sentences following this lame attempt to turn the tables. [/quote] Show us all where I have said anything about BNSF being evil.  On the contrary, I made the point of stating that BNSF, like all corporations, is amoral.  What BNSF has *accomplished* in this vein is a sorry history of convincing certain 3rd parties to make heady investments in rail partnerships, only to pull the rug out from these 3rd parties permaturely.  They did it to Swift.  They did it to the ReeferRailer folks.  They did it to Wabash.  They've done it to 26-car and 52-car shuttle elevators.  They did it to the Port of Montana in Butte.  They've done it to the State of Washington.  They've even done it to me.  I'll bet others can add to this list.
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