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Re: The Future of Trains
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lugnet.trains
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Tue, 2 Oct 2007 21:24:02 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Martin Srb wrote:
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In lugnet.trains, Bob Parker wrote:
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SNIP
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The freight/passenger question: I don’t know much about U.S. trains, but in
Europe there are electric locos that pull freight trains as well as passenger
trains.
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In France nowadays (and most part of Europe), almost all freight engines are
electric. (thank to a highly available hydroelectricity and nuclear
electricity). It remains of course some diesel engines but they are replaced for
electric ones as they are discontinued.
In fact, in Europe, we are in an opposite situation compared to north america.
Europe has lot of passenger train and lack of freight train, europe use
electricity mainly where US/Canada use oil. This situation seems to be the
consequence of geographic facts (distance, population density) - In many ways ,
europe looks like US north east corridor.
To answer the initial question, I have never seen lego train powered by aerial
wires, nor listen about such a project.
Didier
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Message has 1 Reply:
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| In lugnet.trains, Didier Enjary wrote: SNIP (...) Ironically, in the UK, when the (US) Winsconsin Central took over the main freight operator, EWS, they reduced the use of electric locos, presumably because they couldn't get their heads round using (...) (17 years ago, 2-Oct-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| (...) Two-pole contact is needed. But most of the electrified railways use only one overhead wire (like the ex-Soviet loco in the photo). The only examples of more-wire systems I know about, are deep in the history: --Siemens' experimental (...) (17 years ago, 2-Oct-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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