On Sat, 12 Apr 2008 15:45:03 GMT, wrote:

Peter Clark wrote:
On Sat, 12 Apr 2008 01:55:04 GMT, wrote:


LOCAL trucks, LOCAL trains, and LOCAL busses, but not those hauling
crap between cities, much less across the country.

Isn't the Amtrak Northeast corridor (DC to BOS) electrified?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:A...nj-transit.jpg

Amtrak isn't a freight hauler.

DC to BOS is about 350 miles.

LA to Chicago is about 1500 miles.

I wouldn't call 350 miles "local". I call local the Boston T or the
NY subway. The Cambridge overhead electrified bus lines. I think I
read something about electric busses starting to replace the old stock
in NY, BOS, and CHI. As for rail, the ability to add to the existing
intermediate haul segments of the system exists, and has for decades.
Still have to fuel the generators that power the overhead gantries, so
does it take less fuel to put it in each engine, or to run generators
to power overhead electrified lines in the absense of large scale
nuclear power generators to feed such a system?