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<p>[quote user="Lars Loco"]</p> <p> <blockquote> <div><img src="/TRCCS/Themes/trc/images/icon-quote.gif" /> <strong>Bucyrus:</strong></div> <div></div> <h4>...<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size:small;">No, I don’t think there is any practical motive behind the 999 other than NS jumping on the fashion bandwagon and crowing about how green they are.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes;">  </span>And for that, apparently NS thinks it is worth spending other people’s money, even if the locomotive is not practical for pulling trains.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes;">      </span></span></span></span></h4> <p><span style="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;">If anything, they did prove that you can paint a GP38 to make it look like a BL2.</span></span></span></p> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <p> </p> </blockquote> </p> <p>Do not know, the objectives of the 999 project and what aims they follow, but they certainly not intent just going green.  It looks more, their "success" is do discover "best practices", in "cases" batteries may become an option and to be prepared about that. This certainly contains many "ifs" and "can/may be".</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <p>[/quote]</p> <p><span style="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;">NS has stated that the purpose of the 999 is to be “green” and to “reduce the carbon footprint.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>I have seen no other reasons stated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Specifically, the intent is to reduce CO2 emissions for the purpose of stopping climate change.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>It is the same message as in their commercials about the bird in the tree five hundred miles away and the doggies with their fat tongues hanging out the window riding with the wind, yadi, yadi, yada.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">   </span></span></span></span></p>
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