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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by adrianspeeder</i> <br /><br />No, I think the train would need to move as fast as possible to keep up with the massive amounts of containers coming from ships. <br /> <br />Adrianspeeder <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />If you look at a shipping port's news paper, such as Baltimore. You may find a section where there is arrivals and departures of ships that day, previous day and the day after. <br /> <br />ALOT of boxes off the ships go by truck direct to the customer. I have stood in the middle of the port at Baltimore when Evergreen is unloading and see a few hundred boxes disappear into the port. Later that day hundreds of truckers leave with those boxes. <br /> <br />Trains are used to carry boxes from the east coast to the west coast to save shipping the lost time traveling all around the southern USA, pananma canal etc... <br /> <br />I see about 8-12 Double stack trains running north to St. Louis from Little Rock a day. I would think that is one ship's worth of boxes right there. <br /> <br />Dont worry, there are MANY trains. And few ships. And millions of truckers.
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