[ARC5] diesel

[Ken]

wikipedia.org says they generated their electricity from the coal 
fields.  Once the coal fields were depleted diesel was cheaper.


On 12/19/2012 04:50 PM, gordon white wrote:
> Didn't the railroads in Virginia that serve the coal fields also run 
> on electricity, with full coal trains going down to Norfolk generating 
> enough electricity to haul the empties back up? But right now they are 
> all diesel.
>
>  - Gordon White
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