270 cars?! 10 locomotives?! Madness I say! I guess it saves on line space by consolidating a few trains together but dear heavens! UP have operating instructions for operating *3* sets of dpu helpers (4 locomotive consists total including the lead locomotive consist) with a maximum length of 18k which I'm sure I've only seen done once. Imagine if BNSF decided to try that... My mind boggles at how long these trains are. How long would it take to build these trains in the terminal? Can these even fit in the sidings of most freight yards? Imagine how long it takes to charge the brake pipe on the whole consist, to get it underway, and how long it takes to stop these enormous trains.
so when there is a train like that that has more than one engine hooked up to it, do they keep all the engine running all of the time, or do they only start up the other ones when they need to, like for steep climbs or whatever????
Andrew Silva Start them all up since they are used to take the weight of all the cargo plus, normally freighter routes like that will be pretty flat for reliability and last of all the trains not running would just add alot more weight no running and also cause loss of traction.
Afaik, air brake limitations and to prevent string-lining on corners. Airbrakes loose effectiveness the further away they are from a locomotive since there is only so much pressure that a locomotive can make over a break pipe so iirc the absolute maximum length you can have between locomotives on a train is something like 180 cars before another locomotive is needed to help with the brakes for the rest of the train. Having locomotives in the middle also helps reduce the stresses that cause string-lining of trains around corners and the strain on the couplers as each coupler is hauling less weight behind it since some of the weight is being pushed from behind. A third reason is that in some trains they literally just hooked two normal trains going to roughly the same place end to end so that they both go at the same time and you A) don't need 2 crews to drive both trains, and B) takes less time since the second train doesn't have to wait up for the first train easing congestion slightly.
Still have yet to catch this! Very nice
Grade Crossing Number is 005089Y, Owensby St., La Plata, Missouri. Camera facing east.
270 cars?! 10 locomotives?! Madness I say! I guess it saves on line space by consolidating a few trains together but dear heavens! UP have operating instructions for operating *3* sets of dpu helpers (4 locomotive consists total including the lead locomotive consist) with a maximum length of 18k which I'm sure I've only seen done once. Imagine if BNSF decided to try that...
My mind boggles at how long these trains are. How long would it take to build these trains in the terminal? Can these even fit in the sidings of most freight yards? Imagine how long it takes to charge the brake pipe on the whole consist, to get it underway, and how long it takes to stop these enormous trains.
That's a big long one.
That’s one long stack train
For A Second I Thought That Was On 2x Speed Lol.
I love the super stack
so when there is a train like that that has more than one engine hooked up to it, do they keep all the engine running all of the time, or do they only start up the other ones when they need to, like for steep climbs or whatever????
Andrew Silva Start them all up since they are used to take the weight of all the cargo plus, normally freighter routes like that will be pretty flat for reliability and last of all the trains not running would just add alot more weight no running and also cause loss of traction.
Not only for power,but for air for the brakes.does that make sense
Yes , for air and Dynamic braking.:-)
Trains sure do speed through here
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merçi belle video !
Why is in the middle 3 more trains? :-(
Afaik, air brake limitations and to prevent string-lining on corners. Airbrakes loose effectiveness the further away they are from a locomotive since there is only so much pressure that a locomotive can make over a break pipe so iirc the absolute maximum length you can have between locomotives on a train is something like 180 cars before another locomotive is needed to help with the brakes for the rest of the train. Having locomotives in the middle also helps reduce the stresses that cause string-lining of trains around corners and the strain on the couplers as each coupler is hauling less weight behind it since some of the weight is being pushed from behind. A third reason is that in some trains they literally just hooked two normal trains going to roughly the same place end to end so that they both go at the same time and you A) don't need 2 crews to drive both trains, and B) takes less time since the second train doesn't have to wait up for the first train easing congestion slightly.
Every bit of 70mph there
Looks better at YT 2x speed
What does 16K mean?
Eric L 16000 feet
5 engines+134 well cars+3 engines+136 well cars+2 engines.
Wow!
That a BNSF STACKER NS 16K IS A Manifest Train
Derrick Pittsburgh Steelers Higgins Who said it was an NS?
16K = 16,000 ft in this context
firepower782 way he Post it 16K he just Put 16,000 Ft Train
He should said BNSF 16K =16, Foot Train
270 cars
284 cars
5+135+3+128+2
That's cheating. Thats just two trains hooked together.
я не люблю ла плату
258 cars