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Can Freight Trains Be Electrified?

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High-speed passenger rail is all the rage, but when it comes to electrification of America’s freight trains there’s no buzz, almost total silence. Europe and Russia have electrified freight trains, so why doesn’t the U.S.?

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Friedemann, A.J. (2016). Can Freight Trains Be Electrified?. In: When Trucks Stop Running. SpringerBriefs in Energy(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26375-5_13

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