Re:American trains need more than railfan nostalgia
by TulliusCicero on Saturday November 06, 2021 @12:42PM
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The amount of storage space you'd need for each car would likely make this too expensive for all but a handful of people.
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Re:American trains need more than railfan nostalgia
by R0b0t1 on Saturday November 06, 2021 @02:31PM
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No, this exists between DC and Orlando on Amtrack. I considered contacting Amtrack to charter a car train to my location to another. They'll probably do it for enough money and it's not that much money.
What you need to know to argue is, say, they're not losing all of the berths on a vehicle transport car if you want to move one car. They're having you pay the upkeep for that one trip which is not the same as the fully loaded vehicle car.
Re:American trains need more than railfan nostalgia
by tomc1985 on Saturday November 06, 2021 @03:45PM
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They do it with the Eurotunnel, though I can't remember if I saw anything but trucks and busses on it
Re:American trains need more than railfan nostalgia
by ErikCorry on Saturday November 06, 2021 @04:58PM
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Cars too. These are pretty big trains though, don't fit through normal bridges.
The auto trains that go across Europe are much narrower and take a lot longer to load and unload. They are pretty expensive and only used for very long distances. Most of the time it makes more sense to rent a car at your destination.
Re:American trains need more than railfan nostalgia
by sofixa on Sunday November 07, 2021 @09:24AM
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> These are pretty big trains though, don't fit through normal bridges
Normal bridgdes where? They fit perfectly fine on the French loading gauge (max train dimensions), but the British one is much smaller on most lines.
Re:American trains need more than railfan nostalgia
by c_hackett on Saturday November 06, 2021 @06:22PM
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With Eurotunnel Shuttle services you drive on with a road vehicle, remain with the vehicle for the transit and then drive off at the other terminal. Europorte runs freight operations through the tunnel. Finally Eurostar is the pure passenger service running the likes of London to Paris.