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Article: Railroads and "green".(ON TRACK)
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- Railway Track and Structures
- Article date:
- December 1, 2008
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Green is the latest buzzword. Everywhere you look, there are stories about green buildings, green systems and reducing the carbon footprint. But there's a lot more to all this than preserving polar bear habitat in the Arctic or protecting an endangered minnow in the latest construction project. As a long-time advocate of defending the environment myself, I find it somewhat comforting that some people on the environmental stage are just now discovering how green an industry railroading really is.
Yes, those emission-spewing, noisy, greasy hunks of hardware rolling across the country, committing dastardly deeds such as blocking motorists at grade crossings or ...