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Trains magazine has a nice "trains for dummies" web page with lots of great articles from past magazines on the basics of trains and train operations, including railroad grades. Go to www.trainsmag.com. (You may need to have a (free) Trains web account to go further). About halfway down that page, look for the "New to Railroading?" section and click on the link there called "ABCs of Railroads". It takes you to about 5 pages of interesting topics, including one on page 4 called "Grades and Curves". They talk about "ruling grades" and the steepest railroad grades in the U.S. as mentioned in previous posts. I know about the grades article because I just happen to read it yesterday because I had the same kind of questions.
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