On 10-25-97 BOB WALLACE wrote to WES LEATHEROCK... 
 
 BW> WL>        Trains of up to around 10,000 feet in length are not all
 BW> that 
 BW> WL>rare now, 
 BW> Did you mean to say feet here, or tons?  A train stretching out for 
 BW> some 
 BW> 10,000 feet is nearly two miles long! 
 Yep. Conrail does that sorta thing all the time with autorack drags. With  
 them it's not difficult anyway, considering they're 89 feet, plus the 
drawbar.  
 100 car trains of them is nothing. And light, too. They ran a merchandise 
 train a while back of 200-210 cars (I forget the exact number), they had 
 midtrain helpers and all that. It was an experiment the decided not to try 
 and continue with.  
                                       K 
 
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