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Re: punta colonet/Pacific Rim RR?
Author: OldPoleBurner
Date: 09-01-2008 - 15:38
Uh!
How come it is that we can "sensibly" speculate on the construction from scratch of several hundred miles of brand new railroad through rugged mountainous terrain or an equally rugged coast route; to an as yet non-existent container port in Mexico?
But if someone wants to speculate about the mere rehabilitation of an existing defunct route through a similarly rugged coastal route to an existing but underdeveloped port in the USA, -- it is considered fanciful non-sense or even blatantly ignorant pipe dreaming. And oh do the flames fly! Yes I am referring to the so called Humbolt Bay "pipe dream" of using the NWP to connect its port to the rest of the USA.
Seems to me that if one idea is considered worthy of flame out as being ignorant or fanciful non-sense, then certainly they both are.
Or are they both equally valid ideas worthy of further study? Whatever they are, they are similarly circuitous, actually.
If they are both equally valid ideas, then I would prefer the route through the good ol' USA in any event. Since all that stuff is destined to US markets anyhow, it ought to come through US ports.
Moreover, it is almost a no-brainer that rehabbing a few hundred miles of existing track would be much less costly and much less risky than hundreds of miles of all new railroad. - in an extremely corrupt and dangerous foreign country yet!
We should tell Mexico to get lost! Or has the good ol' U.S.A. now become so corrupt and backward itself, that it can't even take care of its own infrastructure needs with its own resources and its own work force.
OPB
How come it is that we can "sensibly" speculate on the construction from scratch of several hundred miles of brand new railroad through rugged mountainous terrain or an equally rugged coast route; to an as yet non-existent container port in Mexico?
But if someone wants to speculate about the mere rehabilitation of an existing defunct route through a similarly rugged coastal route to an existing but underdeveloped port in the USA, -- it is considered fanciful non-sense or even blatantly ignorant pipe dreaming. And oh do the flames fly! Yes I am referring to the so called Humbolt Bay "pipe dream" of using the NWP to connect its port to the rest of the USA.
Seems to me that if one idea is considered worthy of flame out as being ignorant or fanciful non-sense, then certainly they both are.
Or are they both equally valid ideas worthy of further study? Whatever they are, they are similarly circuitous, actually.
If they are both equally valid ideas, then I would prefer the route through the good ol' USA in any event. Since all that stuff is destined to US markets anyhow, it ought to come through US ports.
Moreover, it is almost a no-brainer that rehabbing a few hundred miles of existing track would be much less costly and much less risky than hundreds of miles of all new railroad. - in an extremely corrupt and dangerous foreign country yet!
We should tell Mexico to get lost! Or has the good ol' U.S.A. now become so corrupt and backward itself, that it can't even take care of its own infrastructure needs with its own resources and its own work force.
OPB
