Posted Jan 10, 2019, 9:20 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Palatine
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I am NOT a fan of electrification. Not with power delivered externally. (If they could do batteries and fast charging at stations, that's fine).
Can't do a 3rd rail where pedestrians walk over the tracks. Metra tracks are ground level and not access controlled.
And overhead wires? Ice storms, wind storms and falling trees, no thanks.
Maybe power delivery could be inductive and buried cable. But efficiency of that is poor. Is it a net C02 reduction? Maybe not.
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