These aren't the longest or heaviest trains in the world, thanks to PSR in North America. 5 km train lengths on intermodal trains are NORMAL these days. 40,000-ton unit trains in the States are the norm where it's flat.
No shops or houses for hundreds of kilometers. I don't know if there's a place at least down in the lower 48 states of USA that have that thinly populated an area. Desolate.
I grew up in mt tom price iron ore mining town back in 1980.s and the two owned by Hamersley iron ore mining company and Pannawonica had robe river iron associates and mt Newman mining company companies
A case of ‘seen 1 , seen ‘em all’ (with the exception of the autonomous 1 that got away in 2018) . . ! Surely someone has some good footage of that ‘induced’ derailment , no ?
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That's not true AT ALL, Amtrak guys on the NEC are making that much. Commuter guys in LA and NYC make that in their sleep, and Class 1 guys all over the US make almost that much as well. Y'all don't have the biggest trains either thanks to PSR.
It's called distributed power technology. It heavily computerized and each engine exchanges data with each other as well as GPS and satellite uplink. 30 year old technology. These trains don't look advanced but they sport technology that can turn them into remote controlled or fully autonomous vehicles. In fact, one rail line in Northern Territory is autonomous on most of it's rail line. Only needs human drivers when near the destination.
Neat stuff there. That area looks like parts of the American west, except for less mountains and different vegetation. I hope they aren't selling that iron ore to China.
