Maybe NS grew tired of constantly cleaning the rails

My Prius recharges when braking.  Makes me wonder if they got the technology from Toyota.

Den

Sorry to kill the party - I don't get it.  This thing would take a ton of utility power to recharge and that has to come from some where....

I was wondering how far we had to get into the thread before somebody caught on. Not bad, third post.

I was thinking the same thing when I saw that. How about the 1,080 "LEAD ACID" batteries. Multiply that times the number of engines and you have a lead problem when the batteries are no longer usable.

No body ever follows the "electrons" back to there source. They think because you have zero emissions of a vehicle that it's environmentally friendly.

So how many wind turbines does it take to charge one NS battery powered engine?

Maybe NS grew tired of constantly cleaning the rails?

That was Ken Rickman's job. He has a fiber board cleaner car behind the engine.  But since the coal industry is being shut down NS doesn't need Ken to do that any more. I hear NS is buying wind turbines to charge their engines!

Bernd

Here you go guys. Charge your battery power engines with a wind turbine farm. Scale doesn't matter.

http://compare.ebay.com/like/370686991674?var=lv&ltyp=AllFixedPriceItemTypes&var=sbar

Only $189.95 for a quantity of 3. I think coal power is cheaper at 22¢ a pound.

Bernd

I heard they were reducing the pay of the engineers, forcing them to eat beans, and using the methane to power their locos. 

Isn't that kind of old news? I remember reading about that a long time back?

John

Here you go guys. Charge your battery power engines with a wind turbine farm. Scale doesn't matter

If you locate them near the dispatcher, you could probably run all your electric stuff for free...

Horace Fithers

I thought I was taking a risk with my original post - but threw caution to the wind, lol...

I just wanted to see how many people can't see the forest through all the trees.

Bernd