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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