There is this "To be clear, the technology for electric freight locomotives currently exists: The problem is there is no viable market for them due to exorbitant costs involved, and the prototypes that have been produced are not envisioned to run alone, but rather in tandem with diesel locomotives to ensure reliability."
We did hear some time ago that the purpose of all those fires was to create a clear train way that would be unopposed. Australia and the US.
arsonists satisfy a deep perverted need to destroy...
Diesel or turbo electric are available 🤓
Unrelated - except as regards green policy folly - see this compilation of wind turbines exploding, collapsing ... from Cairns news: https://cairnsnews.org/2024/06/19/labors-legacy-of-wind-turbines-exploding-collapsing-utterly-devastates-the-landscape/
I’m slightly baffled by the statement the trains ( locomotives) don’t exist.
The electric locomotives of considerable power in many cases are commonplace in Europe and elsewhere
The power to run them and the overhead line equipment might not be however in CA!
No verhead lines maybe?
There is this "To be clear, the technology for electric freight locomotives currently exists: The problem is there is no viable market for them due to exorbitant costs involved, and the prototypes that have been produced are not envisioned to run alone, but rather in tandem with diesel locomotives to ensure reliability."