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[quote user="erikem"][quote user="beaulieu"] I don't know if you are aware of this or not, but power management for BNSF and UP is already going to get a lot tougher. Starting sometime in 2009, both railroads will only be allowed to operate  locomotives meeting Tier II or better in Southern California (LA Basin). There are still a lot of road locomotives in both companies fleets that only meet Tier 0 or Tier I standards. They will have to be switched out before they arrive in the LA Basin. Look for the rest of California to follow and the standard to move up as Tier III and eventually Tier IV standards are introduced.I could see LA to Yuma/Needles/Yermo/Bakersfield as being the first part electrified. [/quote]Interestingly, that was the thust of the hearings done by the Southern California Regional Rail authority in 1990-92. The estimated cost at that time was 4 billion dollars. As I mentioned in another thread, about half the cost was due to providing the clearance for a 50KV catennary over doublestacks. [/quote]Yet another reason to go to single stack operations![;)]
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