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Here is a link to an interesting blog piece by someone who is espousing rail electrification for non-oil, sustainability reasons similar to the others I have linked.   <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p> <A href="http://midnight-populist.blogspot.com/2009/09/sunday-train-21st-century-steel.html">http://midnight-populist.blogspot.com/2009/09/sunday-train-21st-century-steel.html</A> <o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> This author goes into a lot of detail about the logistics of train operations such as getting Rapid Freight Rail trains around the heavy rail trains.  He also discusses the diversion of truck traffic to rail.  He claims RFR will be faster than trucks door-to-door even if trucks have to haul from origination to the starting rail terminal and from the ending rail terminal to the destination.  He advocates three types of rail service operating on the same corridor.  The three types of rail operation are:  <o:p></o:p> 1)      Emerging HSR passenger (110mph) 2)      Heavy freight (conventional freight, 60 mph with 33 tons/axle loading). 3)      Rapid Freight Rail for higher speed, priority delivery (100 mph with 25 tons/axle loading). <o:p></o:p> The author advocates an import fee on foreign oil to fund the electric rail vision.
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