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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by tree68 When I was watching IC/ICG in the early 70's, most of the coal drags on their double track main ran around 90 cars. I do recall seeing a returning (southbound) empty one night that was apparently two such drags combined, nearly 200 hoppers behind two Geeps. They were struggling on the long uphill into Rantoul. [/quote] I was chatting with a fellow from the CP, the CP runs a bunch of unit coal trains from Roberts Bank out to the coal basin in South Eastern BC, they run them back and forth 24/7... the trains are always in the 'round 'bouts of 115 - 120 or so coal cars always with an AC4400 on either end of the train. Anyway, because CP and CN do directional running in the Fraser Canyon, and there's no passing CP has wanted to double all the coal trains up from Roberts Bank to Kamloops, and run them as 230 car trains with an AC4400 on the front, two in the middle and one on the end, then when the train gets to Kamloops just split it back into two trains again and continue on. It would be awsome to see, but apparently (and understandably so) the Union has been fighting it.
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