Reading about a new railroad that just began construction in Russia and it got me thinking about freight traffic in tons vs freight traffic in trains:http://www.railwaygazette.com/news/infrastructure/single-view/view/construction-of-northern-latitudinal-railway-to-start-in-2019.html …
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Some hasty googling suggests that a fully loaded crude oil tank car in the USA weighs 286,000 pounds, or about 130 metric tons. So: 65,435 metric tons per day = 503 oil tank cars per day Bit more googling suggests that a crude oil train usually has 100 cars, so abt 5 trains/day
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Presumably, Russian tank car sizes and train lengths might be different--and this back-of-the-envelope estimate is only based on oil, not on natural gas--but I expect my hunch that heavy freight traffic doesn't necessarily mean lots of freight trains will still be true
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What if this railway had been built in a heavily populated part of Russia instead of in the frozen north? With adequate signals and good scheduling, 5 daily freight trains shouldn't pose any serious obstacle to frequent passenger service.
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This lesson must be taken to heart in the USA as well, where there's a lot of friction between freight railways and passenger interests--you don't need to be each other's enemies; both of you benefit from expanded and modernized infrastructure!
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So call it ~700 cars/day?
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