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[quote user="futuremodal"] <p>On page 10 of the July issue of TRAINS there's a brief news item regarding the possibility of reviving plans for electrification due to the high cost of diesel fuel.  The consensus conclusion of the author seems to be that mainline electrification is still too expensive even with today's fuel prices due to the upfront costs of stringing catenary and buying whole fleets of electric locomotives.[/quote]</p><p>Suppose it were decided that all U.S. railroads would electrify.  There would be the cost issue of new catenary and new locomotives, but what about the cost of power?  How many new power plants would be needed to power all U.S. railroads?  And what would this new demand do to the price of electricity for railroads and for general customers?  And what would be the cost comparison of sequestering all CO2 from all railroad diesels, versus sequestering it from the coal fired power plants producing power for electrified railroads?</p>
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