Re: Ginger discussed on Today Show?

From: Tony Finch (dot@dotat.at)
Date: Thu Mar 15 2001 - 11:50:29 PST

"Stephen D. Williams" <sdw@lig.net> wrote:
>
>I thought long ago that a cool solution is a drive-up train.

The problem is that this has an even worse load/unload overhead than
normal passenger trains. However it has been used for a long time in
Europe for long-distance journeys, and the overnight ones are
sometimes equipped with sleeper carriages for the passengers.

Tony. 

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