How long is a train with 100 cars?

It would depend upon the length of each train car, of which modern train cars vary in length from 35 feet long to 90 feet long so if we take an average length of 60 feet per car the average length of a 100 car train would be approximately 6,140 feet long with two modern 70 foot long locomotives.



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The average freight train consisting of 100 cars and weighing anywhere from 12 million to 20 million pounds takes over a mile to stop in emergency braking. There are brakes on every wheel, but it takes that long for all of those brakes to overcome the momentum of the tremendous weight pushing the train.

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The average freight train is about 1 to 1¼ miles in length (90 to 120 rail cars). When it's moving at 55 miles an hour, it can take a mile or more to stop after the locomotive engineer fully applies the emergency brake. An 8-car passenger train moving at 80 miles an hour needs about a mile to stop.

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A train of 150 cars—the FRA's unofficial definition of a long train—carrying iron ore would run about 3,500 feet long, but an intermodal train of the same number of cars might measure 33,000 feet, according to John Gray, the AAR's senior vice president of policy and economics.

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The average freight train is about 1 to 1? miles in length (90 to 120 rail cars). When it's moving at 55 miles an hour, it can take a mile or more to stop after the locomotive engineer fully applies the emergency brake.

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Transit rail modes are measured in car-miles. Car-miles measure individual vehicle-miles in a train. A 10-car train traveling 1 mile would equal 1 train-mile and 10 car-miles.

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It all depends on the amount of cars available for a typical train on any given day. Local short haul trains might only have a few cars like anywhere from 5 to 25, while long haul freight trains, with locomotives only on the head end of the train, typically have anywhere from 75 to 130 or more cars.

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The current world speed record for a commercial train on steel wheels is held by the French TGV at 574.8 km/h (357.2 mph), achieved on 3 April 2007 on the new LGV Est. The trainset, the track and the cantenary were modified to test new designs.

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The long noses are designed to reduce sonic booms in tunnels. Casablanca express: Africa's first, and so far only, dedicated high speed line carries trains at up to 320 kph (200 mph) between the port city of Tangiers and Casablanca.

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The longest UK train journey is Aberdeen to Penzance. Covering 785 miles, this train journey takes about 13 hours and 20 minutes to complete (give or take a few minutes). It has 36 stops and spends about two hours in total waiting for passengers to embark and disembark at each railway station along the way.

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At 250 miles per hour, a rider using the high-speed service would travel from Vancouver to Portland in under two hours. A rider could travel from Seattle to Portland in under an hour. The top speed of 250 mph for the project is faster than other rail services on the horizon in North America.

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The record-breaking ore train from the same company, 682 cars and 7,300 m or 7.3 km long, once carried 82,000 metric tons of ore for a total weight of the train, largest in the world, of 99,734 tonnes.

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A prominent landmark and tourist attraction, Angels Flight is a 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) narrow gauge funicular railway. Situated in the Bunker Hill district of Downtown Los Angeles, California, it has two funicular cars, which are known as Olivet and Sinai.

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NYC No. 999 4-4-0 was quite the speed demon for its time. The first locomotive to travel over 100mph, 999 hauled the Empire State Express and hit a world record speed of 112mph!

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A 150-car freight train at 50 mph needs 8,000 feet (1 and 1/2 miles) to stop; an 8-car passenger train at 79 mph needs about 6,000 feet (1 and 1/8 miles) to stop.

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Modern trains can travel seamlessly from conventional track to high-speed track. They simply travel slower while on conventional track. Passenger service on the conventional freight lines that criss-cross the United States today is limited to 90 mph at best.

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