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[quote user="Phoebe Vet"]My personal opinion is that the railroads should be electrified. [/quote] My "personal opinion", too.'though I see the specific difficulties in electrifing U.S RR's with their tasks, (heavy loads, great distances, great losses due the catenary distances and hazourdous environment) The last point, I mean, if the caternary is broken, and you have to set a service team far away to repair it, until repairing that, it could set you an whole RR down. Like the big Blizzards in middle west do.But even unit coal trains, which deliver fuel to determined power-plants are not electrified. The only recent example of electrics I know so far were some Canadian British Colombia engines.Are the costs for a caternary really so exsessive?  Why are they so unsorpported in the U.S.? For example, Sweden has nice ore units trains, power is supplied by water-power-plants and the units are determined to run more than 1000.000miles without any failure. Loads and determined horsepower is quite equal to U.S trains.Kind regardsLars
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