Every locomotive on the tracks today is a diesel hybrid.............
Every locomotive on the tracks today is a diesel hybrid.............
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.
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?