Getting closer to John Kneiling-length trains. I recall him writing of properly maintained seven mile slide-on, slide-off container trains using train-order dispatching, cutting out the superfluous costs of signal systems and such to take advantage of railroading’s best advantage.
Makes those 4 mile stretches of 'double track' into nothng more than passing sidings
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
Ugh! Let us know, if you can, when you get something over 15K: cars, tonnage, DP status, etc.
21,000 feet would be four miles--there's nowhere around here that can hold one of those, and it would be something like five tracks in our receiving yard.
Carl
Railroader Emeritus (practiced railroading for 46 years--and in 2010 I finally got it right!)
CAACSCOCOM--I don't want to behave improperly, so I just won't behave at all. (SM)
Or on the Rochelle webcam.
The word is that next month, permitted manifest train lengths will go from 15000 feet to 18000 feet. If that goes well, the ultimate goal is 20000 (I've also heard 21000) feet. To run that big will require mid-train and rear-train DP consists.
In a way, it will be life imitating art. Most model railroaders have had the problem of the front end of a train being in one town, while the back end is in another. Now, the real ones will at times have that same opprotunity.
Jeff
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