That must have been quite a sight, hope there's video and aerial footage of this train!
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A train like this is its own worst enemy. It is a labor intensive endeavor to put it together, and then spot it to the unloading ramp tracks at its destination. It is effectively 2.5 trains, which means that someone's freight is not moving while the rest of the containers are being loaded onto their cars. It's twice as long as most of the longest sidings on the entire system, which means that either it or some other no-fit priority train is going to sit and wait for this monster to get out of the way. I sincerely hope this ill-conceived stunt was for publicity purposes and not a shade of things to come from my employer...
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