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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2022 3:12:08 GMT
This evening I went up to see some trains in Madison & Unionville Ohio. Well, this is the longest train I have ever seen and it was all loaded sand covered hopper cars. See if you can count the cars. This train has units up front, then 2 sets of DPU distributed power units, 2 mid UP DPU & 2 rear UP DPU. A must see video!!!
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Post by highvoltage on Apr 30, 2022 14:07:02 GMT
You sorta gave it away in the title of the video. But, I did count them, and got the same number as you.
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Post by Adam on May 1, 2022 11:17:28 GMT
Wow, that’s impressive. That must be one heavy train!
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Post by highvoltage on May 1, 2022 13:45:54 GMT
Wow, that’s impressive. That must be one heavy train! It was slowly picking up speed throughout the entire video. I wonder what the weight was?
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Post by highvoltage on May 1, 2022 13:52:55 GMT
Okay, did some searching. Gross rail load of a covered hopper is 286,000 lbs. Multiply that by 252 and you get 72,072,000 lbs. Wow is right.
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2022 14:25:59 GMT
Okay, did some searching. Gross rail load of a covered hopper is 286,000 lbs. Multiply that by 252 and you get 72,072,000 lbs. Wow is right. This train, including the engines, was 35,000 tons.
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Post by highvoltage on May 2, 2022 13:39:54 GMT
Okay, did some searching. Gross rail load of a covered hopper is 286,000 lbs. Multiply that by 252 and you get 72,072,000 lbs. Wow is right. This train, including the engines, was 35,000 tons. Hey, I was pretty close!
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2022 14:02:20 GMT
This train, including the engines, was 35,000 tons. Hey, I was pretty close! Yep!!
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