> Electrifying US rail outside of switchyards won’t ever be practical, unless you could drive down the cost of electrified tracks with a third rail (overhead el

> Electrifying US rail outside of switchyards won’t ever be practical, unless you could drive down the cost of electrified tracks with a third rail (overhead electric at this scale would be obscenely expensive). India has electrified almost 50,000 kilometers of track with overhead wires and this is increasing eabout 5000 km a year. China has almost 100,000 km of electrified rail track. So very likely whatever barriers to electrification there are in the US are largely self inflicted and maybe corruption or regulatory capture driven.