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Battery electric is so fucking dumb. They could do this stupid techbro bullshit on the commuter lines bridging from the NEC, and use a regular pantograph, and have it make sense.
Still fucking engineer jobs, but that's a given in this economy.
>GPS
>existing PTC
>existing block signals
>no fireball on wheels batteries
>send chinesium garbage from port Newark to some Metro North stop outside Selkirk yard between 2 AM and 4 AM when Amtrak doesn't run
>send a staffed shunter to get the container platoon into Selkirk, and then let it be a real freight car for the rest of the journey.
The ex-Pennsy has the same thing, where once a day the Trenton cut-off runs a train of random bullshit to a podunk town between Philly and Lancaster.
As it is, this shit is definitely going to stop dead in dark territory and become a giant firework when either it gets too wet or some unfortunate sod plows into it.

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