Alright, I see what you mean by that term. It just seemed rather harsh in a discussion like this and as I said, I do have some backing from various articles/books/my own statistics. That being said, in the number of times I have watched BNSF in the Columbia Gorge, a 9,800 foot siding is a good length, considering I have never seen a train that long on either BNSF or UP through that corridor. The longest train I have ever seen in the Gorge is 134 cars (maybe 8,000 feet), which is much, much shorter than most of the trains I see in the Fraser/Thompson River Canyons (just a factor of different operating logistics between CN/CP and BNSF/UP). With this new siding, does that mean they plan to finally run longer trains through the Gorge (as in upwards of 10,000 feet)?
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