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By 2040-80, scrap all your hoppers because you won't be needing coal unit trains any more. Get more tankers though. All those fusion plants need their hydrogen fuel They'd also need something to ship all that helium out too. You'd also need to come up with some kind of new type of car to ship all the collected neutron radiation out to the waste repository. Closer to 2080, you won't even need those. But you could occasionally have a special train of several huge (say 15,000 horsepower) locomotives moving a train consisting of an old passenger car rebuilt into a control station or some kind, a few cars of security forces, an ancient 86' autoparts boxcar rebuilt into a mobile fusion reactor, and a new type of car coupled directly to the control car. The new car would probably be fairly short and have probably four six-wheel trucks and look like a boxcar or a tank car. Inside it would be one or two quantum singularities, fresh from the supercollider, being moved to their new power plant where we'll harvest the energy from them as they decay into nothingness.
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