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    Question about engines used to help push a train

    Glad I didn't have to wait for that at a level crossing. Never seen a train with four sets of engines. Too many eggs in one basket and why? To save the cost of a crew? To haul the freight on that train would take 296 truck drivers plus one additional for every container double stacked. Yet with...
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    Question about engines used to help push a train

    Obviously the risk is low because otherwise they wouldn't do it but the logic escapes me. With engines pulling from the front and others pushing from the rear there has to be slack somewhere in the middle. Because the engines can't possibly be perfectly matched the slack point will be moving...
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    CN at Spences Bridge, BC. Mixed freight headed west Oct. 6, 2021
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