by STrRedWolf
We keep mentioning mail by rail in other topics here... might as well have it's own (and I couldn't find one appropriate). In a different thread...
All this contingent of more proper HSR (and the stars aligning). NY to Chicago in 5 hours?
bostontrainguy wrote: ↑Wed Jun 24, 2020 11:05 am Many above have mentioned mail contracts. Remember that the USPS Inspector General recommended using more rail in 2012. Nothing apparently came of it. I even thought that that might have been the reason behind Amtrak changing the baggage dorms to just plan baggage cars. Perhaps this could be the first step?I got to wonder about the logistics now a days. UPS may have the best way where they have a container-in-plane methodology so they can unload shipments fast...
https://www.uspsoig.gov/blog/not-your-f ... s-railroad
All this contingent of more proper HSR (and the stars aligning). NY to Chicago in 5 hours?