 | | | | | |
In lugnet.trains, Martin Srb wrote:
| |
In lugnet.trains, Bob Parker wrote:
|
SNIP
| |
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.
|
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
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
In lugnet.trains, Didier Enjary wrote:
SNIP
| |
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.
|
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 electricity to haul trains!
Luckily now that Railion (the freight arm of the German railways there might be
a move the other way.
Tim
| | | | | | |
