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Please help me understand "consist." Some of the postings refer to the number of locomotives a train has; others the total number of cars. I thought the latter was the correct usage of the term. If I am correct, and I may not be so, then it wouldn't matter how many locomotives are in a consist. The number of containers to locomotives is more relative to weight-pulling and terrain, isn't it? And could the extra units that are seen occasionally just being dragged back to the shop, being used a DP power or to another point on the line for DP use? And historically, how different are your observations?
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