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"Modernizing" the BNSF Transcon
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In Britain there is some discusion about a project called HST 2, to replace the Diesel HST, one of the most successful trains ever to turn a wheel. One idea floating about is hybrid technology with betterys to aid acceleration and to be charged using dynamic breaking. One of our railway magazines called Moden Railways has just had a quick look at this and worked out that if HST 2's Diesel powercars were a modern clone of HST 1, to make it hybrid you'd need to add 8 tons of battery. Basicly they concluded that at the moment it's not likely you can scale up a Prius for Railway work.
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