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Corrected Weight Data
Author: J
Date: 06-23-2017 - 07:42

FEF-3 Wrote:
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> J Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > John Sweetser Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > -----
> > > "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.
>
> Still makes no sense, as that is only about 23
> tons per car.
> Even empty cars weighed more than that.

Sorry I misstated the data - in 1929 the average tons per train was 804 tons and the average load per car was 35.4 (not average number of cars as I wrote above.)

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