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Re: OT: Muppets

From Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com>
Newsgroups sci.electronics.design
Subject Re: OT: Muppets
Date 2017-12-22 14:53 -0800
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On 2017-12-22 14:23, Michael A Terrell wrote:
> krw@notreal.com wrote:
>  >
>> Joerg:
>>>
>>> No, that goes for about 1/2 million people around here, many of
>>> which regularly join the big trek on I-80 to Silicon Valley. It's
>>> not about me, I don't have to travel much. If we as a nation want to
>>> encourage more usage of public transport then the method above ain't
>  >> working.
>>
>> They don't *WANT* rail.  You do but blame them because you're not
>> pleased with their decision.
>
>
>     Railroads in the United States were built to haul cotton and coal.
> Passenger service was always a secondary service.


Not always:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_railway_history#/media/File:DeWitt_Clinton_(locomotive).jpg

http://passengertrainjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/lv-passenger-01.jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/25/Amtrak_California_Zephyr_banner.jpg


>                                         ... I grew up with a major
> rail line behind my home that ran from Detroit to Florida. There were
> two daily passenger runs, in a single railcar/engine. It had controls on
> both ends, and the passengers rode n the middle. It was an express that
> ran between two cities, early morning and in the evening.
>
>     Freight cars were designed to fit bales of cotton, with no wasted
> space. Coal cars and ore carriers are filled from the top, and emptied
> from the bottom, over a low bridge. The steel mill had trucks lined up
> to receive the coal, and to transport it to their mile+ diameter coal
> pile. It was a 24 hour a day operation to keep a couple week supply of
> coal to convert into coke, for the carbon needed to make steel.
>

We have some lines here as well that were mostly for freight. The ones 
into the Sierra are now largely abandoned and one has become my mountain 
bike route to the east and west. Rail freight has gone to trucks in our 
area. Last time I saw freight cars being hauled to Schnitzer Steel in 
Rancho Cordova, CA, a recycling company, was in the late 90's. That 
track has now become a lightrail line, passengers-only.

-- 
Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com/

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