Railroads and Amazon ? The railroads should be beating down Jeff Bezo's door!

[Deggesty]

Apparently the writer of that article was unaware of the large number of people who depend upon such as you to supply them with the materials for their comparatively small projects. I wonder what proportion of your overall business such are responsible for.

I am one who, in years past, took on such projects as building bookcases and cabinets and paneling our living room.

[Murphy Siding]

BaltACD

Can I order 10K tons of coal on Amazon Prime for delivery tomorrow?

 

     I have a magazine article from about 2 years ago written by a clueless twit. It was in a quasi-professional trade magazine. The article said us traditional lumber dealers were going to be run out of business as soon as Amazon got their delivery drones in service. It seems that Amazon would be able to deliver an entire package for a house to the jobsite in 48 hours! Now that's impressive! An average house probably tips the scales at about 250,000#. How big are the drones?

[BaltACD]

Can I order 10K tons of coal on Amazon Prime for delivery tomorrow?

[rrnut282]

And just how would railroads help Amazon?  Amazon is building their own airline (converting passenger planes to haul cargo), as current logistics flow isn't fast enough for their dreamed-of less than an hour delivery time. 

[CandOforprogress2]

Everything is going direct from factory to door bypassing traditional retail. Railroads should be courting Bezos to located next to Intermodal hubs. Of course Bezo could just buy a railroad but highly unlikley

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/amazon-will-never-be-able-to-railroad-these-five-companies-2017-08-25

Here is a list of Amazon warehouses-

https://blog.taxjar.com/amazon-warehouse-locations/