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5/26/2025, 5:46:36 PM
>>2041441
>I am kinda perplexed as to why you don't see more trams and light rail offering freight service.
Also, divestitures and restructures in the latter part of the 20th century mean none of the class ones own a tram line anymore.
The Route 100 on SEPTA is a good case study for this. Thousands of trucks go from 276 / 76 / KOP / Norristown to central Philadelphia, daily both ways. A freight load could easily ride behind the cars and always have something to move. That would (marginally) reduce throughput on 76. But SEPTA isn't in the freight business and trucking would still be needed on either side of the line, so there's no way that would ever happen in today's world.
>I am kinda perplexed as to why you don't see more trams and light rail offering freight service.
Also, divestitures and restructures in the latter part of the 20th century mean none of the class ones own a tram line anymore.
The Route 100 on SEPTA is a good case study for this. Thousands of trucks go from 276 / 76 / KOP / Norristown to central Philadelphia, daily both ways. A freight load could easily ride behind the cars and always have something to move. That would (marginally) reduce throughput on 76. But SEPTA isn't in the freight business and trucking would still be needed on either side of the line, so there's no way that would ever happen in today's world.
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