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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by arbfbe So please explain how your idea of 'open access' differs from the current rules of interchange. How will this 'open access' increase capacity and make it better for a) the railroads and b) the shippers. I am not sure your idea of stacking yet another loaded container over a shared truck of a stack car will not lead to overloading of the weight limits of that truck. Those 20' boxes can get really heavy. I see a problem in trying to load it on the intermediate platform if the wells on both sides are designated to have both a lower 48' box and an upper 53' box loaded. [/quote] Regarding open access, it has been deceminated quite well in this thread, but to recap: Current rules of interchange allow for certain anti-competitive auspices such as bottleneck rate gouging, paper barriers for shortlines which could in theory interchange with more than one Class I, limiting operators allowed on underutilized proprietary trackage when logic dictates that allowing other operators would maximize utilization, et al. Regarding the Stack n' Half, it is similar to drawbar connected well cars which have 70 ton trucks on both ends, these cars have a net carrying capacity of 160,000 lbs cargo. What I did was replace the interior 70 ton trucks with 100 ton trucks to allow an additional 70,000 lbs cargo over the mini-spine. Do the math and you'll see it all fits together quite nicely.
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