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[quote user="aegrotatio"]Incidentally, why would you schedule a passenger train to follow a long drag heavy freight, anyway? You'd schedule the train when it wouldn't be doing that.[/quote] I've noticed that too. They build a third track to the city only to run the stopping train 5 mins before the express, then the express uses the extra track to pass the local at rush hour. Other then that trains just run once an hour. They needed third track for that ? And worse they won't
A runaway is basicaly any train that's out of control weather who's on it. The more recent CN in BC that killed some on board crew members was called a runaway.
That would be GREAT !!! One each perferably, ROCK style blue and 50's (Rocket style ?) red. In as close as possible to original designs as can be done on each ES44AC would look realy nice.
[quote user="eolafan"] Money talks, nobody walks. [/quote] True. That's why people are so fat and out of shape.
The trade off. I assume we want electrified competing railways, on duplicate lines and freeways and highways. What other country has all that nationaly. Europe may have competing operaters, but there is still only one railway system per country with one owner. Russia has no usefull transiberian highway or other railway to compete with. United States has a lower population density and thinks it can afford way more then everyone else. So maybe there is a trade off, maybe getting everyone out of their
Plus the Russian railways are 3000 DC. That doesn't seem like a very logical voltage for either long distance or high capacity railroading.
Isn't one of the main issues for NOT electrifying, is not just cost, but cost up front and long term investment? While the Santa Fe main from Chicago to LA is being electrified the Sunset route or UP mainline can underbid the BNSF and there is the trucking companys too. It's alot of work to gain customers and while spending your efforts on the technolagy of electric trains, you might be loosing the race. It's not all just about money, because I'm sure a busy transcon can run very
Just judging by the limited stats in the Trains article, the US has far too many railroad miles for it's population compared to Russia or China. The fact that Russia doesn't even have a paved transiberian hiway makes a big difference in choosing electric traction. Even as a rail fan, the changes required in the US to make electrifeing look good would be a shock. Reduce track millage big time, ie consolidate routes even more.............. alot more !
10,000hp short term rating in a light electric locomotive of about 90tons is good for accelertating a passenger train from 80mph to 140mph of maybe 10 coahes or 400tons. These are just rough estimated numbers to make a point without exagerating, but similar to modern European Intercity trains.
It's usualy just the wires that get damaged in great storms, not the poles. Catenary poles are usualy much stronger then hydro poles because catenary wires hang under alot more tension.