Don, That's a nice photo and the light enhances it. I think you're exaggerated the length a bit. The two engines are 6 axles each and look to be high horsepower (blowers?). But these two would be a bit light for hauling loaded hoppers. Even hauling empties on flat terrain, I'd guess 120-130 cars max. When the UP or BNSF coal trains roll thru here the engine consist is 3 or 4 of the 6-axle locomotives. I once road a 102 car IC train out of the Inland mine in Sesser, Illinois. It was a routine move of metallurgical grade coal going to the Inland steel mills in Gary. The trains were about a mile long. 500 cars would be 5 miles, probably too long for operating with, if you could even build enough air pressure to release the brakes in the tail end. Regards, Bob S.
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On A country road on Saturday night 30 miles from anything that might be >> called a town no people no cars just the whistle of a train - ahead is >> the RR crossing. Can I get across before the train gets there? Tonight I >> yield to the mighty tonnage of the five mile train and live to post this >> photo. >> >> C&C welcomed as always. >> >> >> http://donspix.posterous.com/saturday-night-on-a-country-road-no-people-no > > > That's a nice photo. > > Is it really five miles long? At fifty to sixty feet per car that would > be close to 500 cars long. > > > -- > [email protected] via squirrelmail > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
