@Dave Koehler posted:the future is dead rail! and it is hear
Well, "here", actually - but the idea of removing the "electric" (as in powered track) from electric trains just seems so appealing. Of course, I hate batteries (Big Battery will control the world within 10 years). There is plenty of room in medium to larger locomotives for a battery power source. And I see no reason that a TMCC-like, simple (to the user) command system, that expects DC and not AC, would not work on it. That's an extremely "broad stroke" sentence, but not an absurd one.