Re: Electrifying UP's Main Line In the SE Desert


"Bret Cahill" <BretCahill@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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You can't put scrubbers on diesel locomotives.
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Bret Cahill

Why not?
It would certainly be a hell of a lot cheaper that trying to convert the
whole system to electric.

What you really mean is that they don't want to incur the costs of scrubbers
and catalytic converters not that they can't do it.

In fact, one of the reasons for not using catalytic converters on diesel
engines is the high sulfur content of petroleum diesel which poisons the
catalysts.

Biodiesel has no sulfur, negating this whole line of reasoning.



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