Not as far fetched as you think. Right now the BNSF is asking both GE and EMD for proposals to build road slugs for coal service that will have batteries on them that will capture the electric produced in the mother unit is in dynamic braking to power up the batteries for the up hill climb. Bob Stafford ------------------------------
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