News reports say the Navajo Generating Station in Arizona will be shuttered by 2019:
https://arstechnica.com/scienc...plant-in-western-us/
Of interest because it is fed by the electric powered, isolated, Black Mesa and Lake Powell Railroad that operates E-60 locomotives. Had always been on my personal bucket list to see, as growing up in Ohio, I used to spend summers camping around the similar (and sometimes fully automated) and now shutdown Muskingum electric RR.
Bob
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Driven past this line several times, even seen the train on it too.
It would be interesting to know what the speed limit is on the Black Mesa & Lake Powell electric-powered trains.
Plant burns pulverized coal. Steel balls slightly larger than a bowling ball pulverize the coal by racing around 9' diameter rings. John in Lansing, ILL
Number 90 posted:It would be interesting to know what the speed limit is on the Black Mesa & Lake Powell electric-powered trains.
Less than 55mph. The couple times we drove past and there was a train, we caught it and passed it, and my dad always drive under the speed limit.
Now, aren't these also the trains that are completely remote controlled (unmanned)?
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