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Panama Canal expansion to hurt intermodal?
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<P>[quote user="CrazyDiamond"]vvtdeb wrote: "If rail can do it CHEAPER....they will KEEP the business. It won't matter if you can put a super-sized ship through the expanded canal or not. If it isn't cost effective compared to RAIL it won't be used." I really believe that as the world runs out of cheap energy, and the cost of energy soars, the mode of transport that carries the most goods using the least amount of energy will become dominant....and let's face it, trains have the least amount of friction holding them back.[/quote]</P> <P>Coal we do have. Steam can return someday, maybe not in the form we know it.</P> <P>We already run steamships via nuclear power particularly in Military use.</P>
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