My local town has a freight service a couple of times a week. I think my nearest passenger service is well over 100 miles away... :-)
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Jules
My local town has a freight service a couple of times a week. I think my nearest passenger service is well over 100 miles away... :-)
cheers
Jules
Around here they're typically two or three engines at the front, although I have seen two at the front and one at the back a couple of times. They are indeed often a mile or more long, and typically shipping containers are stacked two-high as there aren't bridges and the like to get in the way.
They seem to manage around 50mph on the good track, but you're right in saying that there's a lot of crappy stuff out there.
One method of moving goods often seen here is to put loaded lorry trailers onto the train flatbeds - that way it only needs something to pull them at the remote end and they can be quckly taken out onto the roads for 'local' distribution of the contents.
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Jules
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