Every locomotive on the tracks today is a diesel hybrid.............
Posted on 09/27/2017 12:07:06 PM PDT by lowbridge
He is in good health. I think he got past prostate cancer last year. He has energy, always had. He’s making deals in Sacramento that make Tamny Hall jealous. The dems need a throwaway candidate too oppose a popular trump and save their best for 2024 when the republicans become a minorty party again.
Every locomotive on the tracks today is a diesel hybrid.............
Great-executive order tomorrow....should make fuel much cheaper for all us deplorables with no CA demand.....
Great-executive order tomorrow....should make fuel much cheaper for all us deplorables with no CA demand.....
That's why I'm against the electrification of CalTrans trains on the peninsula, a huge waste of hundreds of millions of dollars. Politicians pushed the electrification project to create "clean" trains; it was a ploy to enable building the hi-speed rail project to SF.
The CalTrain locomotives are already electric. The wheels are electric and provide the power to move the trains. The diesel engines don't drive the wheels; they provide the energy to the electric generators to drive the wheels via electricity. Big waste of money to have overhead electric transmission wires that waste energy by resistance over long runs from where electricity is generated.
How many miles of that project have been completed?..................
Little GTO
You’re really lookin fine
3 deuces and a four speed
And a 389
Listen to her tachin’ up now
Listen to her whine
When I turn it on, wind it up, blow it out
GTO
If he really wants to cut fuel use in California, shut down all the docks where imported goods are offloaded. Ships, trains, planes, and trucks all burn more fuel than automobiles. The Panama Canal improvements, plus an additional Nicaraguan canal, would be sufficient for all that shipping to divert to Gulf Coast seaports.
Off topic. Correct HTML is not working for posting images from my end. I have looked at view source where images appear and use the identcal code except for URL.Anybody have similar problem?
That would fix their pension problem as well.
Great, Coal and Nat Gas Fired Cars
CalTrans Electrification, or High-Speed Rail?
CalTrans: A lot of infrastructure is done, causing traffic disruption for the last decade, as they elevated track or lowered streets underneath, and rebuilt train station platforms. In my town, SSF, they just started on building a new train station. New stuff running parallel to the old for now, old trains still running and no new electric trains yet. San Bruno had it's whole downtown ripped up for the new rail, completed now. They needed to minimize rail and auto interaction, hence the elevated rail or lowered streets - primarily for when high-speed rail goes through. As it is, there are numerous crashes of autos and trains each year. SF is building a new TransBay Bus Terminal around 1st Street & Mission, with the intention that the trains will be extended more than a half mile from current CalTrans terminal at Fourth Street near the ballpark. Problem is, the money earmarked for the TransBay train terminal extension was diverted to pay for completing the Bus Terminal due to wild cost overruns. So they have a big empty pit where the train terminal is supposed to go, with no sources of money to get the trains there.
The High-Speed Rail is a disaster, they still haven't figured out how to get it up the Peninsula let alone how to pay for it. My guess is that it will terminate outside the Peninsula somewhere and people will transfer to CalTrans or BART, maybe in two decades. So much for fast high-speed rail!
I kept writing CalTrans when I meant CalTrain! So close in spelling, but so different entities.
One last item about the CalTrain stupidity (thread is supposed to be about cars). The CalTrain Electrification will run from San Francisco to San Jose. But... CalTrain currently runs from San Francisco to Gilroy. Folks can take electric trains to San Jose, but will need to transfer to the current hybrid diesel trains to continue on to Gilroy. That’s because CalTrain is not permitted to run electric trains on those tracks owned by Union Pacific. What a mess, they’ll be maintaining two types of trains!
Imagine recovering from an earthquake that takes down the grid similar to how Maria took out the grid in PR. The lack of vehicular transport would be lovely.
Seems to be happening more and more. I use Firefox......................
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