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Originally Posted by Rpenner
I thought I posted this before but not sure where it ended up . But my thought is pipe lines can move oil and ore why not groceries and building materials . That would reduce the big rig traffic on ferries and cost saving could be deployed in cost deficient areas opening the door to an innovating future. The cost of pipelines I have not researched but based on the price of oil ????
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That type of system is called a railway tunnel. You use electrified trains to pull rail cards through the tunnel along rails. One the train gets to the other side you reverse the flow.
CP Rail for many years use to operate rail ferries out from downtown Vancouver to the rail yards in Nanaimo. Today that is taken over by Seaspan and I think most of that traffic has moved to trucks.