[Denvercoder9]

Trains actually get a lot closer to container ships than I had expected. With double stacking you can get up to about 1000 TEU per mile of train. Big container ships are generally about 20,000 TEU.

[Denvercoder9]

For posterity: I messed up the calculation, it's a little less than 500 TEU per mile of train (double stacked).