Posted on 05/02/2024 1:07:55 PM PDT by karpov
Didn’t someone drive one of those off the track a couple of years ago?
Railroad co’s should just rename their diesel locomotives as “EV locomotives with a diesel generator”. It’s an accurate description of what they are anyway.
The people of California must be insane.................
Nope... it’s even easier..
electric locomotive with a coal car like car behind it with the generator and a really thick extension cord between them.
There, my locomotive is 100% electric.
or just stop at the state line and tell CA to figure the rest out.
Since escaping the Communist state of California, I go out of my way to avoid buying products from that Communist state.
It’s not easy sometimes, but I’d guess out of every 10 online purchases 8 are not from CA.
My little payback for those rotten SOBs.
Come on, you guys. This will be great. The California High Speed Rail will be up and running by then and freight can get to San Francisco in less than an hour with NO EMISSIONS. It has been legislated so it will happen!
Switch to coal.
Considering the state of Commerce Clause jurisprudence, I am interested in how this is okay (it doesn’t matter if they leave CA or not). Could it be that we are a lawless nation?
I wonder what it would take to repeal the Enabling Act that made California a State.
A more perfect union, would be a union without California in it... It’s time for America to dump California as a state, or maybe just sell it to Mexico.
If it wasn’t so sad it be comical.
stop at the state line, kick there crap out an make Kalifornia come get it.
Bring back the Big Boys!
Just say they identify as an EV...seems to work for everything else.
I would think the Interstate Commerce Clause would limit a state’s authority in this.
The irony is that California is the first state to receive all of China polluted air.
perhaps california’s angle is to force interstate adoption of overhead electrified rail lines (a la much of the rest of the world).
san mateo peninsula already has overhead electrified rail in progress, running from san francisco to gilroy, scheduled for completion in september 2024:
https://www.caltrain.com/projects/electrification
https://www.caltrain.com/projects/electrification/project-benefits/caltrain-electrified-service-plan
presumably, the caltrain project will be targeted for passenger rail traffic only at this stage of implementation.
I seriously doubt that the people in California have the capacity to understand that they are Diesel Electric. Just Hybrids without the Battery.
Tell CA they’ve all been replaced with Prius-like hybrids and it will all be OK.
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