I wonder. What has ever been the longest train?? In Milege 1 mile, 2. 5???
Here’s your answer ready to be surprised.
LONGEST TRAIN: The longest and heaviest freight train on record was
one about 4 miles in length consisting of 500 coal cars with three 3600
hp diesels pulling and three more in the middle, on the Iaegar, WV, to
Portsmouth, OH stretch of 157 miles on the Norfolk & Western RR on Nov
15, 1967. The total weight was nearly 47,250 tons.
Andrew
I thought the longest train happened in australia. Dont have any info on it thats just what ive been told.
Jpm35 is correct that is just the US record. What I could find in my second search with google for a world record came from South Africa. From ‘The Guiness book of railway facts and feats’
The heaviest and longest train, with the largest number of wagons
recorded, was run on the 3’6" gauge Sishen-Saldanha railway in South
Africa on 26-27 August 1989. The train consisted of 660 wagons each
loaded to 105 tons gross, a tank car and a caboose (guards van). The
train was moved by nine 50kv electric and seven diesel electric
locomotives distributed along the train. The train was 7.3km
(4.5miles) long and weighed 69393 tons, excluding locomotives. It
travelled 861km (535 miles).
Andrew