Two questions here:
First let me say the longest train I have had was about 11 feet and Longest I have seen are 13000 feet. A fellow conductor here had a 14200 foot train. 2.7 miles long.
Now railfans, engineers and conductors; what are the longest trains you have seen or operated?
I’ve had a train with 214 cars, over 2 miles long.
Along the Fraser and Thompson, right?
Or maybe to Squamish? [}:)]
Back during the Deramus debacle of the late 1950’s, Katy reputedly set the record for the time with a train that I recall was 300-350 cars. If I remember right the previous record was set by (you guessed it) the CGW version of the Deramus debacle. After all, why run several trains when you can run the whole system in one move and make everybody mad??
I have seen conrail ML403 with 10,000 cars.
Two questions here:
First let me say the longest train I have had was about 11 feet and Longest I have seen are 13000 feet. A fellow conductor here had a 14200 foot train. 2.7 miles long.
Now I have a couple of questions. How long would it take to charge the brake line and what would the pressure be at the FRED?
Ungern
Pressure on the rear end has to be within 15lbs of 90 so no lower than 75psi.
And you would not want to go into emergency with that in the winter cause you aint gunna get it back unless you are lucky.
I’ve seen 130 multis pulled by 2 units.
I believe during the 70’s the N&W oprerated approximately 500 loads of coal with a mid-train helper from Portsmouth Ohio to Columbus as test of the then new Loco-trol equipment to test the mid-train helper. As I recollect the train had to be recrewed to make the run that was normaly a 5-6 hour run for a regular sized train plus putting the train together at origin and yarding it at destination shut those terminals down for serveral hours during the process. While the train did operate from origin to destination, the test was not repeated. I believe somewhere in the Trains archives there is an article about this test.
I’ve pulled a 12,800’ tabletop across the Baird sub. Best train I ever had.
It seems the majority of the longer ones are all intermodal. Here at CN they run anything as long as they want haha and no midtrain units.
Is that 10,000 cars? Are you sure that its not 10,000 feet? At about 50 feet per car, that would make it, what, 500,000 feet? A little under 95 miles. Musta been one heck of a train.
Giggles.
I like to see them FRED that thing.
What were you smoking at the time?
Since no one specified “US only” here, the longest train ever was run in Australia by BHP. 8 locomotives spread out in pairs throughout the 682 car train. 4.57 miles in length. (a little over 24,000’) I think it’s safe to say the engineer didn’t have to worry about having to go into a siding with this one.
anb740
BHP - Bilton , I believe not only has the record for longest and heaviest - but routinely run some very long ones (numbers evade me - but Google BHP and they are easy to find).
That Australian train weighed over 100,000 tons !
Some South African narrow gauge trains are huge . They even held the record once for longest train.
By chnace, were they all white shackle cars?[:O]
I saw a NS coal train with a SD50 and Catfish with 190 empty coal cars in Marion,OH. The next day a lone Catfish had a 187 empty coal cars.
kevin
I have to ask, not having heard the term" Catfish," in referance to railroad terminology…
What the heck is a railroad catfish [?] And is that with, or without hush puppies [?][?] [%-)]