[Olog-hai]

There are still ways to insulate many electronics against EMP attacks. You can bet that railroads would start scrambling to find and restore steam locomotives to working order again though, i.e. if their diesel locomotive generators and traction motors cannot be repaired fast enough . . . (steam locomotives are immune to EMPs, being fully mechanical; and there are a number of them still at many museums and tourist railroads around the country)

[cuban leaf]

My John Deere 1010 tractor would not be affected.

[GOPJ]

(steam locomotives are immune to EMPs, being fully mechanical; and there are a number of them still at many museums and tourist railroads around the country)

You're right - but how would a steam locomotive get from a museum to a railroad track if trucks weren't working. I assume 'wood burning' as coal would require technology to be moved...

Wouldn't it be wonderful if someone took the time to set up a few things so when it all falls apart a steam engine would be on track? Coal would be available? It would take so little effort to put things in place now - and so much effort after an attack.

It's sad the Southern Poverty Law Center has Homeland Security and part of the FBI in a wad over the 'VAST VAST VAST right wing conspiracy' ( yep, the people who showed up at Chick-fil-A)... Paranoid idiots. Janet and goons could actually do some good - help the country if they weren't caught up in paranoia. When Romney and Ryan are elected, people are going to have things to answer to.

[Axenolith]

Read “Directive 51” and “Daybreak Zero” by John Barnes, great scenario crafted slightly ahead in the future...

[factoryrat]

A GP15-1 locomotive wouldn’t even notice an EMP event. There’s still a lot of older DC locomotives out there pulling freight, for the very fact that they’re almost impossible to kill, barring a derailment of course.