Re: [DL] Passenger Train Economics

[Bryce <SandChigg@rocketmail.com>]

--- Marguerite Frey <natasha_corey@yahoo.com> wrote:

<snipety-do-dah>

> --If you skipped, here's the QUESTION.--
> 
> This leads me finally to my question. Is the 100
> pounds of ghost rock per 100 miles of travel for a
> locomotive accurate? If not what is it and what does
> that "100" under the fuel for a locomotive mean?
> Is it...
>      A)The amount of hours of operation a train
> maintains on a single pound of ghost rock? (meaning a
> train could travel 4000 miles on a single pound)
>      B)The amount of coal fuel necessary for running a
> train 100 miles? (equivalent to 2 pounds of ghost rock
> fuel cores)
>      C)Some other number I cannot for the life of me
> figure out?  The excellent accumulated rulings offered
> no further clues.

I could be wrong, but I think they would just charge higher prices for
cargo and freight.  It'd be sorta like overnight delivery charges in
the current Postal Service.  "Sure, you can send that package on a
regular train and let it get there in a few weeks, or you can cut
travel time in half using our GR powered trains."  Also, you can stack
packages to the roof if you've got enough, thus while you might
generate less revenue per package, you're transporting more packages
than people.

-Bryce

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