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It amazed me when I learned this (from "Railroad Tycoon II"), that widespread, commercial use of electric trains counterintuitively predated the diesel era. Tho
by perihelions 2y ago
It amazed me when I learned this (from "Railroad Tycoon II"), that widespread, commercial use of electric trains counterintuitively predated the diesel era. Though the brushed electric motors they had pre-WW2 were very primitive and weak compared to today's.
They had no electric batteries worth speaking of, but it was all overhead wires, and labor was cheap; rolling out gigantic infrastructure projects was cheap.
- vel0city 2y agoIt always blows people's minds in North Texas when I tell them there was electric train service from Dennison to Waco and Corsicana before automobiles were popular. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Electric_Railway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Electric_Railway What's really crazy is I've told people this while in the park right outside the museum with one of the electric railroad cars and people still didn't have a clue despite being able to see the old railroad stop and living there a generation.