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“It’s the biggest engineering undertaking we’ve had in the last 100 years – one of the biggest in modern railroad history, anyway,” Billingsley said.

I wonder how they plan to deal withe higher center of gravity fo the trains? That is a challenge as formidable as anything else.
Are they going to eliminate curves?
Reduce the speeds to 5 MPH?
Pass a new ObamaLaw that outlaws physics?
Limit the upper containers to hauling only styrofoam?

What?

8 posted on 05/02/2010 7:27:23 PM PDT by Publius6961 (10% of muslims, the killer murdering radicals, are "only" 140,000,000 of 'em)
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Double-stack container trains have been running for years. They just haven’t been running through those tunnels.


9 posted on 05/02/2010 7:29:16 PM PDT by Publius (Unless the Constitution is followed, it is simply a piece of paper.)
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