On: Amtrak Could Turn a Profit for the First Time

[lonelappde]

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

[m0zg → lonelappde]

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.

[jascii → m0zg]

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..

[m0zg → jascii]

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

[anticensor → m0zg]

One derail away from mass nuclear accident.