In de US wordt er anders nog veel gedieseld op de spoorwegen. Er zijn nu zelfs minder electrische lijnen dan in 1930.
Ze zal dus met de fiets moeten gaan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railro..._United_States
Citaat:
Electrification in the US reached its maximum of 3,100 miles (5,000 km) in the late 1930s.[5][6][7][8]
By 1973 it was down to 1,778 route miles (2,861 km) (Class I railroads) with the top 3 being: Penn Central 829 miles (1,334 km), Milwaukee Road 658 miles (1,059 km), Long Island Rail Road 121 miles (195 km).
In 2014 the only electrified lines hauling freight by electricity were three short line coal haulers (mine to power plant) and one switching railroad in Iowa.[9][dead link] The total electrified route length of these four railroads is 122 miles (196 km). While some freight trains run on parts of the electrified Northeast Corridor and on part of the adjacent Keystone Corridor, these freight trains use diesel locomotives for traction. The total electrified route length of these two corridors is 559 miles (900 km).
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