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[quote user="Murphy Siding"]      In the brand new, June 2008 issue of Trains Magazine, Don Phillips' column mentions that those jolly fellows at TCI,  CSX's nemesis at the moment, favor re-equipping the entire U.S. freight fleet with ECP brakes; they claim this would increase rail capacity 20% (!)(?)     I presume they would be in favor of re-equipping the freight fleets of Mexico and Canada as well.[;)][/quote]I am curious about how this would be funded.  Is there a simple answer?  Is there enough willing private investment to get the job done?The ECP concept offers a lot of advantages, and it is being strongly promoted, but I wonder if it will ever get beyond limited application in select types of service.  As I read the full report, and contemplate the bewildering complexity of the logisitcs and cost of a full conversion, my hunch is that it will never happen.
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