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Hey everyone! Finally, another video and this time starting a mini-series on railroad electrification in North America. Enjoy 🤙

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How the US Fumbled Railroad Electrification [Part 1: Pre-WW2]

Go to https://surfshark.com/urbanist for 4 extra months of Surfshark! This is part one of my short mini-series about North American Railroad electrification and why we generally do not have electric traction like many other places in the world. My Social Media (Including my Discord for video discussion): https://linktr.ee/alanthefisher Articles http://www.prrths.com/newprr_files/Hagley/PRR_hagley_intro.htm https://www.abandonedrails.com/pacific-extension https://www.american-rails.com/pce.html Time stamps 0:00 Intro 0:37 EU vs NA 1:32 Surfshark Ad 2:19 Open Railway Map 3:47 Lets go back in Time 4:40 The B&O 5:25 NYC and New Haven 7:01 The Milwaukee Road 8:43 PRR 12:11 Outro

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Alan Fisher

losing the old Acela to the Avelia is painful for me because the horn on the new one does actually suck haha

PSP Geezer

Well said. The music at 10:30 sounds suspiciously like Van Halen's "Ain't Talkin' Bout Love" at half speed so I don't know if the copyright police might come after the video.

Alan Fisher

yes thats correct, and don't worry I found a nice way to avoid getting striked on that haha