Statistics and probabilities Wrote:
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> I don’t see government creating a law setting the max train length.

I suppose it COULD happen. There are laws on the books that prevent trucking companies from operating rigs longer than three trailers.

> The industry needs to listen to its own industrial engineering dept and just do what gives the plant efficiency and high output.

But they're not listening to them. They're only listening to the Wall Street investors, stockholders and other parties who want short term rewards and couldn't care less about long-term competency.

> Factories do that so RRs should too.

Some factories do. Other factories are doing the same stuff the railroads are doing.