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A comment on Weight-based motor vehicle tax. Parent comment

Re:Weight-based motor vehicle tax by o11c on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @01:01PM (#37325187)
The main problem with rail is that the last-mile infrastructure is really not suitable for single-car quantities.

How would you detach a single railroad car from the center of a train and move it to the town's sideline?

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Re:Weight-based motor vehicle tax by bluGill on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @01:52PM (#37326083)
I'd stage the train so the car was at the end not in the middle. Then you detach it via a new coupler that doesn't exist but could, and let the car coast to the swtich and move to the town.

Pickup is more difficult though.

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