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As I read this topic, I am thinking back to the stuff in the 1950's when they talked about "The things of tomorrow"....... items like houses that clean themselves and cars that fly. <br /> <br />In my opinion I believe in thirty or forty years things will appear similar with some improvements. Think back thirty or forty years. 1965 and 1975. How much has really changed since the SD45 series came out? Sure there are improvements here and there......AC traction, computer control, a variety of signaling and track improvements.......but essentially we are still running the same thing. Diesel Electric locomotives on track gauged 4' 8.5". <br /> <br />Progress is an evolution, it would take some serious world events to totally revamp the rail network. Sure oil is an concern, but once again lets go back to 1965 when gas was 25 cents a gallon. But in today’s dollars that would be somewhere 2.38 a gallon if you figure inflation. (Numbers maybe a little off because I do not have my CPI index sheet in front of me). Point being is oil is really no more expensive than forty years ago.....but I am not even going to speculate where oil will be in forty years, the market is just too volatile, but if there is a shift, rail technology will shift gradually. <br />
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