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Originally Posted by toesuf94
So, let me see if I have this correct: A coal car is 53 feet long. A typical load is 3/4 ton per foot, or 1500 pounds per foot of length, and a coal car is 3 times that, or 4500 pounds per foot, so an average coal car weighs 238,500 pounds?
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He said each car is roughly 140 tons. Which is 280,000 pounds.
19,000 tons is 38,000,000 pounds (38 million pounds)
And yeah, if each car is 53 feet long from coupler to coupler, then just the cars stretches over 1.25 miles
