by CN9634
Cowford wrote:"Torrefied wood. If the volume were heavy enough it just might make sense."True I'd like to see the $$ for either service but another advantage of shipping this traffic particular by rail (And something a lot of people forget about) is that you can store it in yards for a few days at a time. I'm not exactly sure how the trucking industry works but I'm quite sure they don't like to let trucks sit with loads for days at a time unlike railroads
I can't imagine how the economics would work. The truck direct route is only 125 miles. The rail move would be complicated and is a circuitous ~180-mile route... then you have the transloading cost and final 35-mile truck haul to the port.
Google "livestock vessels" images. Those ships are ungainly looking beasts. I understand it is udderly impossible to get any accomodations on board other than steerage.