The Monster

If you don't need it right away, the rail is still the cheapest way to ship something across the country. Most people have seen the average 28 to 53 foot trailers going across the country on the highway. Well they can be shipped by rail too. Some pros and cons - via container, you can stack two on top of each other so you get 66 feet of shipping space however West of Colorado, you can use 14 foot tall trailers instead of the federal standard 13 foot 6 inches that is legal everywhere. You would be surprised how much extra freight you squeeze in those extra 6 inches in a 53 foot trailer. Of course a good team can be anywhere in the USA in 3 days.. The rail will be a week or more on average.. More and more, highly perishables are going by truck but canned goods is going by rail. Also containers are designed to go by ship, train or truck. On ships, the bottom container can have well over 150,000 pounds stacked on it. That is how well built they are. That being said, that strength adds weight snd thus less loading capacity on heavy loads.. A good day at work. Hopefully tomorrow will be too.

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Edit - I was tired last night. Double stacked 53 foot containers would be 106 feet cargo capacity not 66.