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Mudchicken: <br /> <br />1. Regenrative braking with EMUs and certain traffic density will cut your energy expenses by 40-50%. The cool part - the more trains you run, the more energy you reclaim. <br /> <br />2. Constant tension catenery is almost maintenence free. And without 100+ mph traffic it lasts pretty long time. <br /> <br />3. Electrocution hazard? Oh boy - so how many thousands of people died this year by electrocution along the NEC? How about Europe? <br /> <br />4. You ofc assume that diesel fuel automagically appears in the locomotive fuel tank. Oil does not need to be drilled, transported, refined, blended, transported and finally poured into the tank. <br /> <br />Really... <br /> <br />Actually efficiences are comparable - with electrics doing eensy weensy better. <br /> <br />5. Pollution - current state-of-art power plants are about 40% efficient and pollute far less (per kW) then small diesel engines (small in comparsion). Experimental plants start to achieve 50%+ efficency. It is far easier to control pollution in one place, then in 200 places - especially in smogged cities.
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