>>1250047Overhead line can be suspended higher.
Indeed this is already done in the US.
The Class I operators want you to think that electrification is against your interests, but then why would normal freight still be capable of running under higher catenary?
I'd suspect there's an anti-electrification conspiracy, and it could include several players.
The Milwaukee Road delectrified for no apparent reason other than what appears to be bribes an political scandal which was brushed under the carpet. The Navajo Mine Railroad was also another delectrified line in New Mexico but the Black Mesa and Lake Powell Railroad is electrified and maintains its status.
The only thing which makes me think that these is some kind of conspiracy comes from how in recent years, America hasn't been able to make a new electric locomotive. General Electric maintains a near monopoly on the market with General Motors not even being anywhere near where it was decades ago. Siemens and Bombardier have been making the electric locomotives which now traverse the Northeast and Keystone Corridors.
The fact that a smaller freight operator like Florida East Coast was partial to the idea of electrification if Brightline needed to upgrade shows that there is something going on with the Class I operators.
