the train is blowing it's horn and seconds later the rattling sound of wagons can be heard. it seems to be a long freight train. container after container. I always wonder what's inside them? electronics, clothes, toys, food, computers, wood, furniture? the list is endless.

somewhere someone loaded those containers. I assume that whatever goes into those containers is already packed - somewhere else. somewhere goods are produced - probably assembled - and therefore some parts need to be shipped to the factory. those goods originate and where packed at yet another place. Even the packing material has to be packed and transported to various places where it is needed. the material for the packing goods is most likely shipped to a cardboard box factory, packed! - maybe the container goods go to an airport, are reloaded to an aircraft and are reorganized, repacked and transported to new places. how many miles of transportation could one item represent? for example, a refrigerator? the various materials, the electronic parts, the packaging, the in's and out's of storage places and so on. Or a box of clementines. in order to ship the fruit,  boxes need to be manufactured and shipped to the farms. and then the box of clementines get packed into larger containers and get shipped to another destination. 

maybe one should buy the stock of companies, which produce packaging or transportation materials such as boxes, containers, etc.  rail road company stock doesn't sound too bad either.. 

that morning train made my mind travel quite a distance.