Why Canada doesn t have electric trains?

Why are there so few electric trains in Canada? Passenger trains in Canada have to share the rails with freight trains, which tend to be taller and wider. Most electric trains use overhead catenary systems to feed them power and there's just no way to provide them with power with freight rails in the way.



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In addition, the tracks, signals, rail cars and software made in the U.S. are costlier than imports, largely because the government has not funded rail the way European and Asian countries have, experts say.

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Hopping freight trains is illegal and dangerous. According to the Canadian Pacific Railway's RailSense program, you might be looking at a hefty fine. “Walking on railway property is trespassing and illegal.

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American railways were also built on a wider gauge (the distance between the rails), which allows for larger and heavier trains. As a result, American freight railways are much more efficient than their European counterparts, carrying almost three times as much cargo per mile of track.

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Because most tracks are optimized for heavy fright trains which in America are more important, economically, than passenger transportation. Heavy trains displace tracks, sleepers and ballast so that it is impossible to let locomotives and passenger wagons run with higher speeds. And fright trains are slow.

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