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What Overmod says is largely true. To grossly oversimplify consider the following: 1. Most railroad cars carry 3 to 4 or more times the volume of a truck for the same commodity. 2. The average cost of trucking a single long distance truck shipment (truckload) is only slightly less than the cost of shipping a rail car between the same two points. There are many factors that can affect this such as routings, highway and rail access, etc, but as I said this is a gross overgeneralization. 3. Most railroad hauls begin to lose the competition with a truck in hauls under 300 miles or so. 4. Bulk materials tend to be more rail friendly. So, essentially, bulk materials, especially those moving over 300 miles and/or in unit train movements are much more efficient than the equivalent trucking. If water transportation is available on the same route, it will be more efficent in terms of cost but will take significantly longer. I'm not even gonna touch intermodal... LC
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