by Gilbert B Norman
The Journal reports how all Class I's apparently have come to accept that use of Diesel locomotives has an "expiration date".
With California having enacted an expiration date, other environmentally conscious states will surely follow suit.
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With California having enacted an expiration date, other environmentally conscious states will surely follow suit.
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Railroad operators like to say that trains are greener than trucks when it comes to moving goods, pointing out that one railcar can haul three to four times as much as a truck, and one freight train can remove hundreds of trucks from the highways.
Although the freight-rail industry is responsible for less than 2% of transportation-related greenhouse-gas emissions in the U.S., rail carriers—like the rest of the transportation industry—are under pressure to reduce those emissions, much of which are produced by diesel-electric locomotives.
