From: heller@deepsoft.com

At Fri, 11 Apr 2014 11:39:50 -0700 (PDT) hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:

>
> In the 1950s there were proposals to power a train via a nuclear reactor.
>
> The Harlem Line blog reports on this.
>
> http://www.iridetheharlemline.com/2014/04/11/jets-and-atoms-po
ering-bizarre-trains/

Random factoid: many of the trains on the NE Corridor are effectly powered via
nuclear reactors, since a portion of the electricity used by the electric
trains is generated by nuclear reactors.  (This also applies to subways and
LRVs as well.)

>

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