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I suspect there's a maintenance depot somewhere near the bottom station, which is likely to have a charger. It's just that's not the routine use case.
by pjc50 1y ago
I suspect there's a maintenance depot somewhere near the bottom station, which is likely to have a charger. It's just that's not the routine use case.
- drob518 1y agoOr you keep a diesel generator on the locomotive itself, making it a sort of hybrid.
- atomic_cowprod 1y agoDiesel locomotives are already hybrids (pretty much all diesels built since the mid-20th century are diesel-electric). I imagine that a generator large enough to charge up a locomotive would add too much extra weight to the design, however I could see a modified diesel locomotive being utilized to both push a dead electric train and to at least partially recharge that train's batteries during the journey.
- sidewndr46 1y agoDiesel-electric drivetrains are not "hybrids" in the sense that they have an energy storage device. The same type of drivetrain was used in submarines and tanks during WWII, no one calls those a hybrid.