California to ban diesel locomotives...

[firecadet613]

The better message is to agree to not break the instituted California laws and no longer provide transportation inside the state. There is no obligation to provide interstate transportation.

Companies won't do that. As the 5th largest economy in the world, they'll continue to find a way to operate there..

 

[actaeon277]

 

[Nazgul]

What is their proposed solution to diesel power locomotives? I struggle to believe there is a battery that would provide enough capacity for them.

I worked on electric forklifts for 40 years so I understand the systems well.

Don

 

[MCgrease08]

What is their proposed solution to diesel power locomotives? I struggle to believe there is a battery that would provide enough capacity for them.

My guess would be hydrogen fuel cells.

 

[04FXSTS]

A bout a hundred years or so didn't trolly cars run on electrified wires strung above their routes? To me that would seem to be a somewhat logical impractical way to power the trains. Maybe install solar panels and windmills on the locomotives. That way the faster they go the more electricity the windmill will generate. Or could the whole idea of eliminating diesel locomotives is just too stupid for any solution. Jim.

 

[dieselrealtor]

We have some friends in CA that have businesses which deal in several more zeros that we do. Very conservative, I asked him why they are still there, he stated "it is so easy to make money here".

 

[Leadeye]

My guess is that this is just another ca tax on the rest of the country. How much stuff that the US uses that comes from china unloads in ca? That will have to be loaded on a ca approved train or truck at least as far as the border where I would imagine that the machine connected have already built large terminals to break and reload freight of all kinds to continue on to it's destination.

 

[Leadeye]

We have some friends in CA that have businesses which deal in several more zeros that we do. Very conservative, I asked him why they are still there, he stated "it is so easy to make money here".

Just buy a law.

 

[Keith_Indy]

How is California so able to affect the entire United States?

Port to rail logistics

 

[Shadow01]

A bout a hundred years or so didn't trolly cars run on electrified wires strung above their routes? To me that would seem to be a somewhat logical impractical way to power the trains. Maybe install solar panels and windmills on the locomotives. That way the faster they go the more electricity the windmill will generate. Or could the whole idea of eliminating diesel locomotives is just too stupid for any solution. Jim.

Wait, windmills generate electricity? I was told they were placed in California as an emergency measure to keep the state from separating from the rest of the country and sinking.

 

[NHT3]

San Andreas fault will put the woke to sleep some day solving the problem.

 

[Nazgul]

Wife was in the Air Force for 10 years so we lived in Northern CA. Had house and I had a good job. We left for Indiana in the early 90's. After we were back here for a couple years we got a letter from the state of CA saying they wanted 20% of any money in my 401k earned while I was in Ca. They wanted to tax the money removed from the state, I had transferred it to the 401k where I worked here.
Took the letter to a lawyer and he cracked up laughing and said don't respond to it and don't worry. Turns out they couldn't legally do that. Just a money grab.

Don

 

[Leo]

Hopefully the entire industry stops operating in commyfornia

I am sure that would be an easy sell, except that is where the Ocean, ports and loading docks are located.

 

[Pepi]

CA is going to fall off into the Pacific soon. What a sh|TTY state

 

[BigRed]

Can we still have train travel from California for Hawaii?

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obiden says yes. Just tie it into the same train track going across the Indian Ocean.

User Clip: Joe Biden announces that the U.S. has plans to build a railroad from the pacific all across the Indian Ocean

Joe Biden announces that the U.S. has plans to build a railroad from the pacific all across the Indian Ocean….

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[Flash-hider]

Steam power may be making a comeback.

 

[Ark]

What is their proposed solution to diesel power locomotives? I struggle to believe there is a battery that would provide enough capacity for them.

I worked on electric forklifts for 40 years so I understand the systems well.

Don

Teams of brown immigrants harnessed up, pulling the trains with muscle power while a white guy cracks the whip?

What if this is all just a plot by Democrats to return to their glory days? At this point they're running out of Industrial Revolution to ban and roll back.

 

[Creedmoor]

Steam power may be making a comeback.

West Virginia miners are cheering.

 

[Piezak]

San Andreas fault will put the woke to sleep some day solving the problem.

That will only create more problems. The California state capital is in Sacramento, which is east of the fault line. California will keep its state capital. California will get billions and billions in Fed disaster funds. Then, the rest of the nation will be pressured by the blight house to take in their poor defenseless sexual deviants and mutilated weirdoes. Then, if that isn't enough, every city in the nation will be pressured into renaming streets like Lincoln and Washington into Sexual Deviant Boulevard's. School children all across the nation will have to take time to remember those "brave souls" who lost their lives in the great earth quake while giving obeisance to rainbow colored flags.

And if our government can't mess up our lives that way, they will find another.

 

[Ingomike]

That way the faster they go the more electricity the windmill will generate.

I hope this is a joke…