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Now *THAT* was a good reply!! TONS of factual insight,...thanks! (Makes you wonder if "fuel cell" technology in long haul freight service could be THAT far off? Interesting thought,..but with the typical Fuel Cell "standard operation" your power output is like 35% electric, and the remainder is heat, that can be designed to be just about any temperature you choose, in the range 200-1800 degrees Farenheit. You could produce A LOT of steam that way, and do a "combo" power transfer that was both electric motor, and mechanical Steam...drive. perhaps using the electric to "lug" around yards, aND TO break momentum from standing starts, up to a speed where steam driven vanes could take over.....driving similar to those hydraulic transmissions in the German Loco's Southern Pacific once had? Fire the boiler on day one, and NOT need to add more fuel for 8-10 years? Needs only water... And the only combustion byproducts are Water and Oxygen? A truly GREEN train, that produces valued natural resources as it's exhaust waste? Dream come true, it would seem, Not to mention very few moving parts,...and clean enough to run in NYC, while permittng the costly to maintain caternary to simply be scrapped as "un needed"? Course, those "core" rejuevinations after 8-10 years of service, would be costly, but the savings in not buying petro fuel diring that time, would be enormous as well... H'mmm?
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