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Re: Unreliable steam?
Author: J
Date: 06-22-2017 - 19:28

John Sweetser Wrote:
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> "J" wrote:
>
> >In 1929 the average train was 35.4 cars totaling
> 804 loads.
>
> What does this mean?


Those statistics are published in the Association Of Americsn Railroads' Fact Book. My point in mentioning this was that some of the features of operations in the past such as the lack of alignment control couplers made sense when trains were significantly lighter.

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