Panama Canal drought forces Maersk to start using land bridge for Oceania cargo

Re:Panama Canal drought forces Maersk to start using land br... by jcrawfordor on Sunday January 14, 2024 @11:00AM (#38991584)

Not huge locomotives, more of them. BNSF regularly operates trains that carry nearly 1,000 containers at about 10,000 feet length on the transcon. I believe the configuration is three front, four center, three rear.

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Re:Panama Canal drought forces Maersk to start using land br... by fransje26 on Sunday January 14, 2024 @04:24PM (#38994574)

So.. 10 trains per ship then. With 38 ships per day, that's 380 trains.

Assuming 190 trains per direction, on a 24h/day schedule, that's 8 trains per hour, per direction. Or a 7.5 min block between trains 24 hours a day. That doesn't seem very realistic..

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Re:Panama Canal drought forces Maersk to start using land br... by jcrawfordor on Monday January 15, 2024 @01:02PM (#39003938)

Not really that far from current transcon capacity, headways are routinely under ten minutes during busy hours. Doesn't seem hard to achieve on a dedicated route. Especially in a totally new installation that might be fully double-tracked and use a moving block system.

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Re:Panama Canal drought forces Maersk to start using land br... by EasyMark on Sunday January 14, 2024 @09:47PM (#38996911)

so kind of like memory? "unused rail is wasted rail"

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