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I know they don't carry as much freight as trucks, but we have a lot of 
rail traffic in these parts...We have multiple rail lines here.
http://wwwb.dot.ga.gov/dot/plan-prog/intermodal/Rail/Documents/PDF/Georgia_Rail_Map_plain.pdf

The first is the historic, now CSX line running north-south from 
Chattanooga to Atlanta..you know where the Great Chase occurred...and 
the second one transports coal over to the Plant Bowen (the Norfolk 
Southern line).   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_Bowen_Coal
Multiple trainloads of coal go there every day.
There is another CSX line over in the eastern part of our county, but I 
cross the above two at least twice a day so I know about them.
It's kind of ironic that the fuel saving rail feeds the greenhouse gas 
monster(Plant Bowen).  Also, it is noteworthy that I never see railcars 
full of grains or other goods, it's almost always cars or military 
equipment.

Bev



Lynda wrote:
> Truckers currently have the biggest "voice" in Congress.  The rail lines are 
> far more efficient.  We see that problem here in CA where massive quantities 
> of produce *used* to be "trucked" by rail but are now clogging up the 
> freeways and sucking down the fuel.  Now the rail lines are either being 
> torn up and turned into "urban paths" or left lying to rot.
>
> Lynda
> ----- Original Message ----- 
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>
> > >  I've been saying for years that we shouldn't be tearing up rail lines, 
> > > even as we've torn up thousands of miles. Durn, I was right. Durn, nobody 
> > > cares.
> > Marie
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