Amtrak Could Turn a Profit for the First Time

Re:Amtrak Could Turn a Profit for the First Time by lonelappde on Sunday November 17, 2019 @07:12PM (#21560977)

Amtrak runs on electricity in the NE corridor. Please explain your plan to electrify thousands of miles of long haul low usage rail.

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Re:Amtrak Could Turn a Profit for the First Time by m0zg on Sunday November 17, 2019 @09:15PM (#21561412)

For the price of one small war in the Middle East, we could have nuclear locomotives and trains 10 miles long, hauling goods for basically nothing.

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Re:Amtrak Could Turn a Profit for the First Time by jascii on Monday November 18, 2019 @03:14PM (#21567712)

And for 1/10th of the price of that we could have overhead power lines powering the locomotives with whatever source of energy is cheap/safe/available..

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Re:Amtrak Could Turn a Profit for the First Time by m0zg on Monday November 18, 2019 @07:28PM (#21569646)

Exactly my point. I wasn't _seriously_ arguing in favor of nuclear locomotives, of course.

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Re:Amtrak Could Turn a Profit for the First Time by anticensor on Monday November 18, 2019 @05:25AM (#21563181)

One derail away from mass nuclear accident.

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