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700 KM on 4 Liters of Fuel?

Yes it is possible, FactCheck.org says so:
Can a freight train really move a ton of freight 436 miles on a gallon of fuel?
Yes.
Some rail lines do better. The Soo Line, which is the U.S. branch of the Canadian Pacific, operating in the upper Midwest, reported moving each ton of freight 517.8 miles per gallon of [...]

October 16th, 2008
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Office Building Warmed by Commuters

In Sweden a new office complex will be heated through the power of body heat. The offices will be attached, or really close, to a major train station that is already heated by the people who use it.
“We had a look at it and thought ‘We might actually be able to use this’,” said Karl [...]

January 17th, 2008
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Virgin Trains Introduces First European Biodiesel Train

Sir Richard Branson owns a lot of companies and he has previously mentioned that he wants to fight climate change and cut back on emissions. It appears that he’s sticking to his word as Virgin Trains is running a biodiesel train in Europe and plans to switch more trains to biodiesel if this test run [...]

June 7th, 2007
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From Air to Rail

Air travel is very, very, very bad for the environment. So why am I bringing it up on this website? (yeah for rhetorical questions!)
A company is proposing to take old airplane fuselages and convert them into monorails. This just sounds cool! And it is! Energy for the trains comes from solar power, wind power, and [...]

January 25th, 2007
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Catch the Hybrid Train

Europe will soon begin trial runs of the first European

October 19th, 2006
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