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Not so long ago in a galaxie very near by there was this railroad called the Milwalkee ( sp) Road which I beleive was electrified from Seatle to somewhere in Montana. When diesels came along the first thing they did was pull out the catinary because it couldn't compete with the cost of running diesels. A 4400 horse power diesel pruduces about 5 .2 Mega Watts of power . To pull a freight it takes maybe two diesels at a minimum so it doesn't take to many trains and the railroad quickly finds that It won't be able to buy the power necessary to move its freight so it has to go into the power generation business. I doublt that the numbers mentioned to electrify included building power plants too. The North East of course was already electrified by the Pemsylvania and the New York Central and Amtrak buys power from the utilities that evolved from the Pen Central company
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