What are the likely factors influencing rail capacity?
Kenny9jaWhat are the likely factors influencing rail capacity?
What type of capacity? Do you mean trains per day, tons per day, passengers per day, or what?
Or weight it can handle (limitations on the cars themselves notwithstanding?
Larry Resident Microferroequinologist (at least at my house) Everyone goes home; Safety begins with you My Opinion. Standard Disclaimers Apply. No Expiration Date Come ride the rails with me! There's one thing about humility - the moment you think you've got it, you've lost it...
Whole books and many papers have been written about this subject . . . see the AREMA, Barriger Library, and University of Illinois collections, among others. It's not an exact science, either - weather, for one, can be a 'wild card' and have a huge effect. Most of the Class 1's were reminded of that last winter . . .
- Paul North.
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