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5.5 mile long trains - I don't think so. At the time 50 ft. cars were were common place which let's say measured 53 ft. overall between coupler knuckles. This would make a train of 548 cars. While a bigboy might have a theoretical TE sufficient to start a consist of 548 empty cars on level track as a practical matter it could not be done. There would be over 200 feet (2/3 the length of a football field) of bunched slack in a train of that length. As the slack ran out a drawbar would be pulled out probably somewhere short of mid-train. If by some miracle all drawbars held up, the conductor and rear shack better be strapped into space capsule like seats. The G force when the slack runs out at the caboose would be enough to pull the fillings out of their teeth. LOL <br /> <br />Mark <br />
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