“Rather than leave town, though, one Canadian mayor stepped up to bring in the biggest mobile power generators they could get their hands on: Diesel-electric freight train locomotives.”
A diesel-electric locomotive is a power plant on wheels. In 1998 a Montreal suburb borrowed two from CN, pulled one off the rails and dragged it down the street to city hall. It wrecked the asphalt and kept the lights on. Texas spent last week with no plan that good.