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[quote user="RRKen"] <blockquote> <div><img src="/trccs/Themes/trc/images/icon-quote.gif" /> Bucyrus:</div> <div></div> One thing to keep in mind is that this Cargo Beamer is intended to address an exploding market of TOFC that results from trying to sweep the highways free of trucks.  That is what it is being used for.  In the U.S., we have not yet gotten to that point, but the FRA says they intend to take 80% of long haul trucking off of the roads and put it on rails.  So that is going to require lots of new rail infrastructure, plus whole new ways of doing things faster. <div style="clear: both;"></div> </blockquote> Are you going to pay the cost of making that happen?      <div style="clear:both;"></div> [/quote] No, that will be public sector financed if the private sector can lay enough golden eggs.  It is the public sector that is promoting it.  It probably could happen gradually, over time as a purely market driven objective, but the public sector wants it now, and their motive is primarily to benefit the greater good of society by reducing CO2 emissions.  They will also need to electrify all the freight railroads and produce the power from renewable sources in order to close the loop on this CO2 reducing objective.  From reading the Cargo Beamer article, I see that there is a fair amount of this same CO2 reducing objective in their rationale, in addition to simply reducing highway gridlock.
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