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Is the US finally getting ‘all aboard’ with electric trains?
Two new electric trains are just a drop in the bucket.
The reasons for this extremely slow adoption are plentiful, but one of the most glaring problems is opposition from the Association of American Railroads, the industry’s main lobbying organization. The major operators — CSX and Norfolk Southern in the east, and BNSF and Union Pacific in the west — “fastidiously opposed to deploying capital that would improve infrastructure. As a result, they are unwilling to fund electrification and focus on cutting costs and services in order to reap higher profits,” Maddock Thomas wrote in the Brown Political Review last year.
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