Will it be possible to mix cargo and passenger traffic with MicroRail?
We plan to restrict cargo movements to late night hours because might be difficult to provide an emergency walk space through the center of some of the cargo containers. In such cases, you would probably want to restrict use of such containers to times when there would be very low numbers of passengers on the line. For containers holding packaged cargo only at the sides of a center aisle of the cargo container, these containers would not need any time-use restrictions. Such containers would have the same emergency doors as the passenger vehicles and would have a walk-through aisle in the center. There is no reason that such container cars could not be highly useful for large amounts of cargo. It would also be possible to design a shallow, lift-off container with crawl space beneath the container for emergency use. I am not sure just what sort of a configuration we will eventually develop, but I feel confident that we can provide a suitable container.
