Apr

5

Train traffic is suddenly up 300% in the past two months on the UP main line that runs one mile from my shipping container. Whenever there’s a quick shift in a single variable look for a parallel shift in cause or effect. That will be the investment.

I imagine the big flux is due to the skyrocketing diesel fuel price. It’s $7 per gallon here, and climbing. Trains are 4-9X more fuel efficient in ton-miles per gallon than semi-trucks. One train hauls hundreds of trailers in a two-mile string that requires only four diesel locomotives.


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