On: A 100-year-old railway Mexico hopes will rival the...

[CaliforniaKarl]

The railroad is a good idea, but the concerns on throughput are real. If it’s a single-track railroad, your consist length (at least in one direction) will be limited by the length of sidings. Every rail car heading east will inevitably head west (to pick up containers).

It’s a big operation, putting together a new container-oriented freight railroad, and I hope it goes well!

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I'm also curious how security will be handled. 300km, mostly through middle-of-nowhere, with potentially high value cargo seems like organized crime's bread and butter

[wolverine876 → IncreasePosts]

Organized crime doesn't want attention from people with power to cause them problems.

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I'll have to assume you aren't too familiar with Mexico then.

[adolph → IncreasePosts]

It seemed to work well in Fast Five until there was a plot twist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_Five

[pphysch → CaliforniaKarl]

Scaling a railway (horizontally and vertically) is a lot more doable than scaling a canal, right?

[kmlx → pphysch]

depends on the scale factor. can you scale it 10x to match the canal? probably not.

[marcosdumay → kmlx]

Well, the point is moot, because you can't scale the canal either.