Re: Atom powered train

In the 60s, the Atomic Energy Commission set up Operation Plowshare, which spent $770 million over the next decade and a half studying the use of nukes for infrastructure projects. Their ideas ran from nuking a new Panama Canal to creating a new harbor in Alaska. It began with the Santa Fe Railway Company, which wanted a straighter and flatter path through the Bristol Mountains. The new route would require either a 2-mile long tunnel or cuts 500 feet deep into the mountain—far too expensive for the railroad on its own. It did, however, pique the interest of the Atomic Energy Commission, which was searching for peacetime uses for nukes.

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Mike "Mikado" Anderson