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  1. 9th July 2013, 06:15 PM #1
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    Long Train

    Have seen some long trains on the WA mine system but this one in Cloncurry a few weeks ago took 5 mins to pass (was going slow tho)

    never seen one with an engine in the middle before

    [ame=http://vimeo.com/68937127]How Long is this Train !!! (Takes 5 minutes to pass ) on Vimeo[/ame]
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  2. 9th July 2013, 07:16 PM #2
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    That is one seriously long train! It took a long time to get going, but can you imagine how long it takes to stop once it has a bit of speed behind it.

    I have seen vids in the US and Canada of similar length trains with a loco in the middle, but never seen that before in Oz. did you count how many wagons it had? I started to, but lost count pretty quick.

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    There are some big coal trains down this way, 90 wagons, three locos up front and two in the middle, but coal weighs a lot less than that stuff coming out of the Isa.
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    I did my first train spotting trip to North Queensland in 1974 and they were using radio controlled mid train helpers then.

    BTW, check out the video in the link.

    It’s a UP 295 car ( 618 contains ), 9 unit, 5km long train running at high speed.

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  5. 10th July 2013, 01:48 AM #5
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    Not real heavy at 15,500t

    Our mainline consists are 160 units, 1.86km long and weight is 11,520t + 4 locos.
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    90 wagons in that one.
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    The ones I drive are 167 ore cars, however there are 234 trains are more common within the system. Head power only and at least 20K tons.
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    One of yours ??

    just up the line from Pannawonica, ( Was just the engines, no train )
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    In 2011 I counted 134 coal wagons on a BNSF train coming out of the yards in Hardin, Montana, after loading at the Crow Nation's open cut. UP run very long trains of shipping containers across the great plains. Nearly all UP container wagons are double decked and some take four 40' containers. In Los Angeles and Long Beach you see heavy freight trains and the Blue Line commuter trains being run down the streets. Trains have right of way. Might is right.
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  10. 14th July 2013, 09:25 AM #10
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    In northern NSW, the trains are only 82 wagons, limited by the grades and the lengths of the passing loops. Each wagon either 100 or 120 tonnes gross, the train being hauled by three locos totalling approx 14000hp. The train is banked (pushed) over the steep grade of the Liverpool Ra by another 3 locos.

    The sound of 28000 hp of diesel power coming up the range through Ardglen is interesting
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