(erielack) NY Harbor

["Janet & Randy Brown" <jananran_@_mymailstation.com>]

At the risk of continuing off-topic, I have to look at the practicality of rail freight tunnels under water.

They aren't.

Can you name three?

Detroit-Windsor (NYC/MC)

Port Huron-Sarnia (GTW/CN)

And . . .?

The problem is the gradient needed to get under the channel and back up with thousands of ton of freight, laid upon the difficulty of driving a tunnel through wet.

More than a mile to get down; more than a mile to get across; and more than a mile to get up -- all through slop, at best.

There's a very good reason there's no rail tunnel for freight under any part of New York Harbor -- and never will be, until oil goes to $100/barrel.  Then we might start serious study.  Until then . . . and even so, car float is cheaper and easier and in place.

Randy Brown

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