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Amtrak runs on electricity in the NE corridor. Please explain your plan to electrify thousands of miles of long haul low usage rail.

• m0zg 7y ago
  For the price of one small war in the Middle East, we could have nuclear locomotives and trains 10 miles long, hauling goods for basically nothing.
  • anticensor 7y ago
    One derail away from mass nuclear accident.
  • jascii 7y ago
    And for 1/10th of the price of that we could have overhead power lines powering the locomotives with whatever source of energy is cheap/safe/available..
    • m0zg 7y ago
      Exactly my point. I wasn't _seriously_ arguing in favor of nuclear locomotives, of course.