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Electrification. Good for freight RR`s ??

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[quote user="henry6"] [quote user="carnej1"]  So who pays to buyout all the freight railroads? Are you proposing forced nationalisation of the entire US rail network? [/quote] Therein lies the rub.  Up to now, for the most part, railroads in the United States have been private sector investments and operations based on our supposed economic practices.  Nevermind any other arguements of history and competition for the moment.  That being said, there is a major need for a virtual total transportation infrastructure repair or replacement and the question from air, highway, water, and rail, is "how" (nevermind the "how much", we know it is lots and lots and lots).  Since we have never had a comprehensive and all ecompassing transportation policy in this country, we are headed into some major arguements (both political and financial) and, therefore, some major changes in the way things have been done. If one group insists on being included while excluding another, then nothing will be accomplished. Or if one side insists on being included because they are the only one not included already and are rebuffed, then nothing will be accomplished either. We are at a point where all have to come to the same table and talk and plan and form a transportation system for the 21st Century.  The question is how much has to change to reach a mid ground model that will be acceptable to both Capitalistic and Socialistic (because that is what each other calls the other) sectors and thus move this country forward instead of stagnating in the 19th Century mindset and 19th and 20th Centuries' technologies. But mind you, I am one who thinks we have never fully exploited steel wheels on steel rails and all it can accomplish because we have always been beset by idiologies rather than applications.  Electric railroading in this country is one of those technologies of the past which must be considered for the future. [/quote] How do you arrive at the conclusion that we need a virtual total transportation infrastructure repair or replacement?  You mentioned the capitalistic and socialistic sectors.  A trumped up transportation crisis demanding a national solution that is bandied about these days strikes me as a rather obvious ploy by that socialistic sector.    And what in the world are you talking about when you say that steel wheels and rails have never been fully exploited because they have been beset by ideologies rather than applications?
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