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Originally Posted by Hardlyworking

Nope. GAO.

Rail Safety: Freight Trains Are Getting Longer, and Additional Information Is Needed to Assess Their Impact | U.S. GAO

“Thirty-eight cars in the 141-car train, stretching two miles long and operated by Norfolk Southern, were carrying a variety of chemicals including vinyl chloride.”

And just for the record, I do not read The Drudge Report.

Thanks for introducing facts, to a very uninformed comment/opinion.

A very close friend of mine, who has about a half-century in the railroad industry (many years at the executive level), told me that before CSX sold the line from Pensacola to Baldwin a few years ago, they had experimented with trains from between 15,000'...all the way up to 19,000' long.

They used DP's (distributed power), which are locomotives positioned back toward the middle of the train to reduce in-train stresses (buff/draft), that are caused by just having locomotives on the head-end. The reason they chose this portion of their system to experiment with, was because of the relatively flat grade and minimal curvature.

I've been a railroad 'fan' for many years, but not to be confused with being a - "railroad foamer." LOL