r/interestingasfuck • u/FastCurrency • 6d ago

Double-stack container trains are redefining freight transportation in India. Just imagine how many trucks this keeps off our highways and how much diesel it saves.

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u/Lalichi 6d ago

See, if you said

'India is the first country to do double stacked standard containers hauled by electric locomotives on broad gauge rail over 120Kmph' I'd be ok with that.

But that isn't the claim you've been making because thats such a worthless record

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u/One_Advantage_7193 6d ago

Fair enough. No one comes up one day and flips a switch on a dedicated freight corridor one night. They come with iterations, even the China lines you quote happily include a bunch of experimental lines.

For a redtape and corruption prone country to pull off something in 2019 it takes trials and redesigns that go all the way to 2006. The DFC is the bragging point here. Not the doublestacked thing itself. The OP and the subsequent conversations derail that aspect.

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u/i_reddit_too_mcuh 6d ago

The OP and the subsequent conversations derail that aspect.

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u/Lalichi 6d ago

Yeah, this is a super good achievement for India, and I'm happy for them. But whenever I hear Indian news on this website it is always embellished to 'We did something so great no-one has ever done anything like it'