[dukoid]

I wish we had some form of "TCP/IP" over rail, where the "packets" are containers or pallets...

[AnimalMuppet]

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a railroad train full of memory sticks...

[dukoid]

I suppose the bandwidth is not the bottleneck currently but mainly the "switching capacity" for this kind of application?

[waiquoo]

dropping packets would be a much bigger deal...

[dukoid]

Yeah I was going to write UDP first but then thought it might be a worse analogy because of that.

So what I was trying to say is: Why can't shipping containers be more "automatically" routed over rail? Perhaps fully automatic rail car couplers would be more helpful in general than yet another gadgetbahn?