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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by M.W. Hemphill By the way, 90-mph freights weren't common anywhere in North America, ever, anywhere. Not hauling grain, lumber, coal, and canned goods! Nor were 40-mph or 50-mph freights common in the steam era, not if you're talking average speeds. Even a coal train runs 40-mph downhill today. It's the average freight train speed that matters. Whatever it does on a one-mile tangent downhill is wiped out by the average. Average freight train speeds have been in the 25-mph range since the 1940s. If you go back to the 1900-1920 era, the paradigm was to load every train to one pound less than the poor locomotive would stall with on the subdivision's ruling grade, thus the preponderance of small-drivered locomotives in that era. [/quote] I disagree. Intermodal's Bust one by us when were moving at around 65-70 MPH. I know on the Island of montreal it is 65 MPH max for freight, 35 MPH for hazardous material trains- (montreal City bylaw) , but once off the island the speed increases... I'm sure it's not 90 MPH- But it is 75, 80 MPH, it must be- Otherwise we have a lot of trains breaking the rules. Passenger trains can move upwards of 110-115 MPH on and off the island, Unless otherwise stated, around curves etc...
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