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An idling gas engine may be annoyingly loud, but that’s the price you pay for having WAY less torque available at a standstill.

  • stoy@lemmy.zip
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    5 months ago

    I hope you are not talking about battery locomotives.

    With overhead wires the train has a practically unlimited battery capacity.

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      5 months ago

      There are use cases for battery trains. In remote, mountainous locations where the cost for electrifying a track is very high it is not uncommon to use electric trains with batteries. Here in Germany we have several regions where diesel trains have been replaced by them.