▲ 48 ▼ Feds announce $100M program to cover 50% of shipping steel in Canada by rail and water (www.cbc.ca) submitted 1 day ago by ValueSubtracted@startrek.website to c/canada@lemmy.ca 15 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] alsimoneau@lemmy.ca 2 points 21 hours ago (2 children) Trains are also massive though permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] villasv@lemmy.ca 1 point 12 hours ago* a cargo ship can be used to ship a lot of trains, like hundreds of trains permalink fedilink source parent [–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 3 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) Have you seen a cargo ship though, the train car comtainers on it look tiny, and are stacked above deck like a tower and below decks. Sometimes as much as 10000 to 20000 containers, All going one place. Trains are 100 containers long maybe, I think it is only 50 in Europe. And have to switch routes to get across the network, and makes delayed stops in trainyards for connection changes . They just don't have the same bandwidth as a giant ship. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] villasv@lemmy.ca 1 point 12 hours ago* a cargo ship can be used to ship a lot of trains, like hundreds of trains permalink fedilink source parent
[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 3 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) Have you seen a cargo ship though, the train car comtainers on it look tiny, and are stacked above deck like a tower and below decks. Sometimes as much as 10000 to 20000 containers, All going one place. Trains are 100 containers long maybe, I think it is only 50 in Europe. And have to switch routes to get across the network, and makes delayed stops in trainyards for connection changes . They just don't have the same bandwidth as a giant ship. permalink fedilink source parent