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It could be possible to link America by rail?

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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by futuremodal In your estimation, would the concept of the land grant work to expand the rail infrastructure in South America? If my idea was implemented (e.g. not a land grant per se but a granting of a "sustainable endowment" of forest reserves in which the proceeds from the sale of timber is used to pay interest and/or dividends on the equity used to finance the project), would that be possible? [/quote] I don´t think so. Railroads in South America are doing merger like class 1 in US. ALL join all south brazilian rails with a big part of Argentina network. The companies here use the idea of "big cargo to big distances", so they don´t care about such projects. Today, the most profitable railroads in Brazil are those operate only with ore. The reason is they have cargo all the year. Those companies that transport agricultural products don´t have cargo all the year. Lumber transportation in Brazil exists only at Jari and EFC rr. Jari is a lumber mill inside amazon forest, that was build by an rich guy in US called Daniel Ludwig. The project now is operated by a brazilian company called Jarcel Celulose. They have only two SD38-2 and a fleet of flat and ore cars. The line has about 70 km long. EFC transport some lumber, but its big bussiness is iron ore. pedro
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