QUOTE: Originally posted by greyhounds QUOTE: Originally posted by Junctionfan You could literally move an entire division on a train. 6000 troops in a division (or is it 10000?) say 6,000. At least 50 per car=120 cars at the most. Lash up 4 or 5 P-42s and away you go. You can't do that on 1 747 and a convoy screws up traffic on the road. This is a joke, right? After you load 6,000 troops in a 120 car passenger train, where would you take them? The train's gotta go someplace. To a port of embarkation and a waiting troopship?
QUOTE: Originally posted by Junctionfan You could literally move an entire division on a train. 6000 troops in a division (or is it 10000?) say 6,000. At least 50 per car=120 cars at the most. Lash up 4 or 5 P-42s and away you go. You can't do that on 1 747 and a convoy screws up traffic on the road.
Quentin
QUOTE: Originally posted by talbanese Questions: Does the military get a discount when using the rails? Do the railroads have to bid on normal military traffic?
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QUOTE: Originally posted by Modelcar ....In this "non-argument" situation....I am one that is thinking in a calamity of sort in this country people other than military personal have to move about.....and if civilian aircraft are not flying for a period of time....and the panic clogs the Interstates....How does it happen...? How do ordinary folks move about....Well one solution is a viable rail transportation system....What's so wrong about that.....It does not specifically have to be Amtrak, but I'm simply saying a viable rail passenger transportation system.
QUOTE: Originally posted by talbanese QUOTE: Originally posted by Junctionfan Could Amtrak help out with munitions and weapons that way the railroads can concentrate on the raw materials and other industrial demands associated in a war build up? If need be...(lets hope not)...Amtrak could help by staying out of the way!
QUOTE: Originally posted by Junctionfan Could Amtrak help out with munitions and weapons that way the railroads can concentrate on the raw materials and other industrial demands associated in a war build up?
QUOTE: Originally posted by Modelcar ...Our interstates are busy at best now....we all know that...and ANY hickup in some kind of tragedy in this country that disrupts air travel....and we all now know that can happen, will cause expanded interstate travel. In some areas any great amount of expanded I S travel will paralyze that system and what then...Gridlock...! So, having a viable rail transportation system to move people surely makes sense. A no brainer. But don't hold your breath as the government we now have will not...not support it.
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