(02-24-2020, 10:16 PM)ijmorlan Wrote:(02-24-2020, 09:02 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: Are there any electric freight in N/A? Certainly there is none in Canada. I think we're all aware that our railroad regs are terribly obsolete compared with other places, so it makes sense that those places have better regs in this context as well.
That being said, I'm not sure breaking it up would help any, I wouldn't be at all surprised to hear that they require both directions to be unpowered before freight proceeds.
As far as I know, you are right about electric freight in North America. I will say that I suspect there probably is some oddball system somewhere, but basically none.
That's correct. There are a couple electric freight lines in North America, but they're mostly small operations/private railroads. Some examples include the Navajo Mine Railroad, Deseret Power Railroad and the very short Iowa Traction Railway. BC Rail used to operate one in the Rockies in British Columbia to serve a coal mine, but it's now abandoned.