It seems like I was constantly passing trains, as I drove along US 60 from Canyon, Texas to Clovis, New Mexico. Trains came by in both directions every few minutes on the tracks parallel to the road. Many of them were loaded with containers or with actual truck loads. I kept on thinking how good it was that all those trucks were on the tracks and not with me on the road.
We have the world’s best freight rail system, as I wrote in a posts a few weeks ago. Seeing it in actions, over and over and over again, reminded me. Above is one of the trains passing one of the trucks. How many trucks would it take to move the stuff on that train? Below is the feedlot, but look closely behind. What looks like crenelations is another passing container train.
