Evaluating Train Length
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- Опубліковано 28 тра 2024
- 💭 Do you think longer trains are a problem? What do you think about train length?
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I kind of wish you had defined Long. Here in Australia, most freight trains are about 1.1 miles (1.8 kilometers) in length, but I don't know what the average is in the US.
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Great question and thanks for the productive comment! One problem is a lack of common definition for what counts as long. Our report points to differences in calculating train length, with some using car count and some using linear length. Even then, there is considerable overlap between how some define typical, long, and very long trains.
I can tell you in s.arizona are up to several miles long, regularly. 3-7
@@AiiNonProfitit wouldn’t be hard since you have gathered data on train length. You determine the average train length and then it’s just a bell curve. Again, since you have already gathered the data, this process shouldn’t be very difficult.
There is a lot of buzz words, but it would help to define how long is a “long train”, where “the data” came from, what areas you’re looking at (e.g. western lines with long straight stretches or east coast’s more variable turns), freight types, and how this analysis is being funded.
Longer trains. Did you evaluate the addition of more locomotives in the middle and ends of the longer trains. How is that more cost effective and environmentaly more efficient. Seems to me the only savings are Carriers reducing train crews. A stopped two or three mile train can cut more than one community in half. I've seen it more than once on the UP.
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Less room acoustics / reverb would be better
Amazing how you think blocking traffic is not a significant issue.
This is just a paid political announcement by the AAR. Aii=AAR. Brought to you by the people who want one-person crews, 4+ mile long trains, and so on.