You can have a little infrastructure. As a treat. But only if its a gadgetbahn. Or battery electric. You kids like Tesla, right?
We only are using the batteries on one route so it isn't that awful of an idea. Also elongated muskrat can go to hell.
Freight railroads are also looking into them (mostly for hump yards, but some in road service) and they're so stupid because half of the time they don't end up being lower cost than catenary wire electrification.
And with the state of railroad safety in our country, I reallllllllly don't want to see our locomotives filled with something that can only be extinguished by burying it. (Oh, and lithium can just spontaneously reignite, too, so even after the fire is out, it's not actually out.)
Then there's the fact that lithium batteries are extremely expensive to refurbish, so with the loading and unloading that a locomotive experiences, when the battery inevitably loses charge, you basically have to pay for an entirely new powerplant.
I mean yes but it sounds fancy and your average senator can't understand anything with more than 4 syllables
I didn't expect to actually learn anything about trains on this blog
What do you mean? This is a purely informational and very official serious blog
mhmm, sure, let's go with that.
I was actually hoping for a play-by-play of your tiff with the cargo haulers about that one corridor (The one you had a twitch stream for)
Which corridor are we discussing because all of ours outside the NEC use freight railways and I kinda want to murder every freight and cargo executive there is
