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California's New Electric Train Makes For A Shockingly Better Trip - We Tried It
20 Aug 2024 | Abstracted from Fast Company
"By switching to electric trains, Caltrain...can eliminate 250,000 metric tons of CO2 emissions a year, roughly as much as the pollution from 55,000 cars. But it's also just a better experience for riders.
"...a single locomotive in the front pulling the entire train behind it, each individual car is now an "electrical multiple unit," or EMU, with its own engine, connected to overhead electric wires. "It's generating power throughout the system."
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