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The challenges are what makes them impractical. The company has investment it needs to repay, so it obviously wants to tell you it's not a big deal. It's much more cost efficient and solar efficient to install them on roofs of homes and building, create shelters from them, or simply just make a field of them. Things like "solar railways" should be a last resort, after we have already covered the obvious solutions.
I don't think it's a slam dunk case. There's lots of costs associated with installing solar on a roof that may not apply here. I think someone would have to do a comparative lifecycle analysis