I am in a heated exchange of communication regarding the necessity to electrify America's railroads.
But I was rebuffed by the argument that building catenary power distribution is laborious and expensive.
Can someone direct me to examples (photos?) of automated MOW equipment that can build / service catenary wiring?
In the event that there was a national initiative to electrify 35,000 miles of mainline track, wouldn't that be incentive to design / build such a machine (*if it doesn't already exist).
In the event that diesel fuel triples in price, due to "Cap and Trade", I believe that there would be a groundswell of support for transitioning to electric power.
In addition, building urban electric traction mass transit, would only increase demand for automated machines to speed the task.
Any thoughts / guesstimates on the number of machines and timeframe to build 60,000 miles of urban rail mass transit?
I am aware of track laying machines that can do over 1 mile per day. Are there machines that can do it faster?
60,000 miles computes to 60,000 days of operation for one machine.
6,000 days for ten machines.
600 days for 100 machines.
300 days for 200 machines.
But I was rebuffed by the argument that building catenary power distribution is laborious and expensive.
Can someone direct me to examples (photos?) of automated MOW equipment that can build / service catenary wiring?
In the event that there was a national initiative to electrify 35,000 miles of mainline track, wouldn't that be incentive to design / build such a machine (*if it doesn't already exist).
In the event that diesel fuel triples in price, due to "Cap and Trade", I believe that there would be a groundswell of support for transitioning to electric power.
In addition, building urban electric traction mass transit, would only increase demand for automated machines to speed the task.
Any thoughts / guesstimates on the number of machines and timeframe to build 60,000 miles of urban rail mass transit?
I am aware of track laying machines that can do over 1 mile per day. Are there machines that can do it faster?
60,000 miles computes to 60,000 days of operation for one machine.
6,000 days for ten machines.
600 days for 100 machines.
300 days for 200 machines.