Of course it would be cool to electrify.

But doing so would not bring in one thin dime of the revenue needed to pay for it; Nor will it pay the otherwise unneeded cost for someone to maintain it.

Not even if the locomotives never broke and never needed maintenance. Now maybe if they were perpetual motion driven, that would tip the.........


Now as for Iowa Traction's electrification - it's toast!

Not even the SN's Marysville electric operation could survive the last engine breaking down; nor could it survive the last catenary maintainer retiring. Once gone, there was no business reason to replace either.