Rail is great unless you don’t fit the requitements… I bet the mostly assembled trains didn’t fit within the largest rail car dimensions or something silly as rail is often much cheaper for long distant large shipments.
Considering a single flatcar can carry two shipping containers back to back, I don’t think this would have presented an issue. I highly doubt anyone ever even bothered to give any thoughts to what the best way to transport them was and just went with whatever default logistics company they usually use and let them do whatever they want. There’s a reason we are almost dead last in terms of our climate action and GHG production in the world.
You might be right, but I was more thinking the height and width limits for the snow sheds and tunnels in the Rockies. Some large loads can ONLY go via truck / highway due too their dimensions.
Rail is great unless you don’t fit the requitements… I bet the mostly assembled trains didn’t fit within the largest rail car dimensions or something silly as rail is often much cheaper for long distant large shipments.
Considering a single flatcar can carry two shipping containers back to back, I don’t think this would have presented an issue. I highly doubt anyone ever even bothered to give any thoughts to what the best way to transport them was and just went with whatever default logistics company they usually use and let them do whatever they want. There’s a reason we are almost dead last in terms of our climate action and GHG production in the world.
You might be right, but I was more thinking the height and width limits for the snow sheds and tunnels in the Rockies. Some large loads can ONLY go via truck / highway due too their dimensions.