Re: Strategic Reserve.

[Janos Ero <erojr@spammail.cern.ch>]

dave pierson wrote:

>         Yup.  But if the lines are heavily _electrified_, then any
>         'problem' can take them down.  Self propelled motive power
>         (steam, diesel, wotever) is better than electics under those
>         circumstances, be the disaster manmade or natural...

Dave you are surely right, but perhaps the electrified lines 
aren't AS vulnerable as often believed. On the Hungarian 
electrified line from Budapest towards Vienna the electric 
catenary was operational until the front arrived, despite 
of the heavy bombardements by the Allied Forces (actually 
the catenary was destroyed together with the rails), and
the first electic hauled trains started as soon as
September 1945.

Janos Ero