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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.................
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.
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.
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.
Another step to control prices and disrupt the supply chain
So build a freight depot in Nevada at the border and let CA pick their stuff up or drop it off with their unicorn drawn wagons.
F California.
Oh the irony!
” It limits locomotive idling and increases reporting requirements.”
Utterly deranged. The diesel engines in those things are HUGE. They are not always easy to turn off and on. And heating and cooling cycles and cold start ups will wear the living hell out of them.
Also, the diesel does not drive the wheels in any direct way. There is no drive shaft etc. It only spins a large generator to make electricity. The current then turns the wheels using electric traction motors much like on a toy train.
Modern freight trains may be a mile and a half long and be stacked double high with shipping boxes. Instead of 5 or 6 locomotives, you’ll need 500 trucks to move those loads.
We are ruled by idiots.
And all those longshoremen and other union port workers, and all the railroad union employees, and all the Teamsters still vote Dim.
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