First hydrogen locomotive started working in Poland.

  • Rowsdower@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Yeah. It’s just that distance and remoteness aren’t good excuses to avoid overhead electrification

    • barsoap@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      A line crossing the Rockys can hardly be considered remote, (at least in an integrated system) it should get tons and tons of through-traffic. It’s not about where the line is but what it connects.

      A line can be way less remote, say just ten kilometres from a million inhabitant metropolis, but still see very limited traffic as the area is rural, and only have hourly passenger service and nothing else, maybe a couple of grain wagons in harvesting season and electrifying it would not amortise in a century or ever (because increased maintenance costs). Completely different situation to having through-traffic 24/7 bumper to bumper somewhere at the arse of the world.

      • Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz
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        1 year ago

        If the government has full monopoly on everything rail related, then connecting two places becomes a political question. It may not make economic sense, but in the big picture of an entire country and its internal politics it might be a sensible thing to do regardless.