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man...look what i started. i have been thinking that if the railroads would work with the trucking industry it would work to their advantage. one way i was thinking of is that the railroads could run a type of transfer terminal in each major city. there, trucks would do all the local pickups and bring the product to a terminal. from there it would be loaded onto boxcars etc. and shipped to another city to be offloaded onto more local trucks and delivered to its final destinations. we do this at my trucking company all the time. we will go to a transfer terminal on the east coast, pick up a loaded trailer that has freight for many different stores on it. from there we will take it to the west coast and deliver it to another terminal, where they put it on smaller trucks to deliver it to all the differet stores. also, i was thinking that wouldnt a complete transcontenential railroad be much faster, and make it easier to transport goods across the country? i always wondered why they would waste the time to transfer cars from an east coast railroad to a west coast railroad. i wonder why the two never merged. one more thing. the railroads need to build a big triple track, transcon railroad from the east coast to the west coast for all these cross country shipments that dont need to make very many stops in between (never will happen) still truckin on down the road Alex
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