[Vwdiesel] EPA things

[Justin Bennett]

There used to be an electric railroad that crossed the US.  Remember the Old Milwaukee Railroad?  There are still a couple of their old power stations standing in rural MT.  Of course they are empty ruins now.  If I remember correctly when going down the mountain grades they injected the generated electricity back into the power grid.   
Justin

understanding is most if not all of Europe's, or at least western 
Europe's railroads are electrified. Here is an example of a great deal 
waste that I have never seen discussed before. To get over the Sierra 
Mountains here in Calif. the railroads have to add a couple of diesel 
electric locomotives. Then to descend the mountains, they use the 
energy to run the electric motors in reverse to generate electricity. 
What do they do with that electricity? They use it to head giant heat 
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