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<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">Yes, maybe you would have to have a level on each of the cars that would decide if it was okay to bleed all the cars at once.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>None of this stuff is going to happen tomorrow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And it will not happen everywhere when it starts to happen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But there is nothing far fetched about the technology.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The issue is converting all the cars and locomotives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This can only be done incrementally, so any new equipment has to be compatible with the current rolling stock.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And even then, with the ability to convert incrementally, these kind of improvements need to be on a lot of cars before they have much of an effect on improving anything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even ECP brakes face this monumental problem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t see ECP brakes being universal for a long, long time, if ever.</span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
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