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Several mines and manufacturing plants in Montana have either curtailed operations or closed entirely due to the high costs of electrical power. Montana Rail link has experimented with using locomotives as "Portable Stationary Powerplants" at the copper mine in Butte, also owned by Washington Corp. Testing was also done at a couple of other locations along their line, including a Talc plant at Three Forks. Apparently the tests were sucessful, but the NIMBY's raised so much rucus, about noise and fumes and increased fuel truck traffic that further testing/use has been stopped. I understand that during operation, the locomotive prime mover was operated at about 75% throttle. Any other roads tried this or similar use of spare locomotives? Ron.
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