We have motorrail on some intercap routes in Australia that operate open top car transports under overhead electric in suburban Sydney and Melbourne. Admittedly they shunt to unpowered sidings with diesels but it shouldn't be a problem unless the rail operators want it to be.
Australia's long distance rail is all tourist focused. It isn't generally a viable alternative to flying for business travellers and busses are cheaper for those on a budget. I took a car to Perth from Adelaide on the Indian Pacific a decade or so ago. 2 nights on a train. 3 if you start at Sydney. Amazing trip. John Lindsay On 09/02/2013, at 3:50 AM, "Peter C." <[email protected]> wrote: > However, the electrified NorthEast corridor of train service from DC to > Boston is unable to accommodate the use of these Motorail cars because of > safety with the overhead wires to power the train!? It all comes down to > infrastructure and cost in the end!? > > Peter Crisitello > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
