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Originally Posted by diehardbiker
That is cheap! I know it sounded expensive but if you translate into mathematics, it is D I R T Y cheap!
Say, if the mileage are 2 gallons per mile, that would translate into half MPG. So in other word two cars together gets one MPG.
And if these train pull 400 cars, divide that by two to get average MPG per car.
That would translate into 200MPG for each car! How can any other vehicle beat that? Whats more, only need two person to haul 400 cars meaning only two man hour wage... Verses 18 wheelers
It would take 200 tractors and 200 drivers to haul entire train loads, and the best mpg for 18 wheelers are 30mpg... which transform them into... how many gallons per mile for all together? divide that by 200, that would translate into 6.6 gallons per mile (That is the best you can get, but in reality average 18 wheelers gets 15mpg and that would mean 13 gallons per mile) PLUS 200 man hour wage thus costing $$$$ plus wear and tear on our tax paid highways.
So even 2 gallons per miles for train is alot cheaper than mpg for 18 wheelers.
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Yeah, I'm aware that freight trains are MUCH more efficent than semi trucks with tons of trailers which isn't any cheaper due to cost of repairing roads that trucks caused and all the fuel in each semi trucks! 200 semi trucks times 300 gallons of fuel which is around 60,000 gallons of fuel burned while a 2 or 3 locomotives producing around 10,000 hp would be less than 7,500 gallons to burn pulling 100-120 cars carrying 2 containers which is like 200+ containers in one run for up to 1,000 miles or so.