CARB wants EPA waiver to force railroads to zero emissions

Maybe if they allowed more pipelines to be built we’d have less railroad emissions…

Do they even have an inkling of how much tonnage per day is handled by the railroad?

Let's just go ahead and make everything electric. No gas, ever. We all know how safe and reliable electric grid systems are throughout the country, and how they never fail, and how there's no downside to everyone and everything sucking off the same electric teat.

Sounds great. You go first, politicians. When do we start?

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Private companies, like Union Pacific in the West or CSX in the East, pay for their infrastructure and equipment. 

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Found the problem. We certainly can't have people come to the realization that infrastructure gets built even without government.

Frick the EPA, CARB and Sleepy Joe.

This is nothing but a ploy to permeate another layer of wealth redistribution & control through the illusion of environmental governance.

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I guess Lionel will be making a comeback.

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Can we at least put those little drops of oil or water or whatever it was to make smoke come out of the train?

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Soros Fund Management placed new bets on railroads

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recalibrated its holdings in a struggling media industry and dumped electric-vehicle maker Tesla Inc.

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Hmm. Recognizing that the legacy media is dying and trying to throw weight elsewhere? And is dropping Tesla “revenge” against Musk?

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CSX Corp. CSX, +1.11%, according to a filing. The fund also bought 27,075 shares worth of Norfolk Southern Corp. NSC, +1.99%

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Buying into the “smaller,” Eastern Class I roads. BNSF and UP are bigger and in the West. I do wonder how the Canadian invasions (CN and CPKC) play into the EPA’s stuff on freight.

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Aren’t most locomotives already diesel hybrids? frick the EPA!

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Technically, pretty well all of them are serial hybrids, which is basically an electric infinitely variable transmission (IVT). There is no battery, so the latter term is more accurate than calling them a hybrid, which usually implies some means of storage and regen.

Now, back to to your regularly scheduled Cali bashing thread.

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Aren’t most locomotives already diesel hybrids?

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They’re “diesel-electrics.” A diesel motor provides the energy that’s converted to electricity to power the traction motors on the trucks to move the locomotive.

I believe I got that right.