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Shelor’s article combines rail electrification with a new DC power grid. As I recall, AC power lines have a practical limit of 500 KV but DC power lines in Russia are 1MV and that implies half the line loss. I doubt that justifies replacing existing AC power lines. Then he claims conversion from diesel electric to direct DC electric would significantly lower costs. How can he claim that? I’d think operating costs would be comparable and then adding infrastructure costs for electrification and I think electric becomes more expensive, which probably explains why US railroads don’t electrify. <br /> <br />Someday, railroads will have to stop consolidating trains and send freight one remote controlled powered car at a time but I won’t live to see that on BNSF or UP.
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