Corporate Greed and stock prices.
I work for Union Pacific and I am regularly building 18000 foot trains. 5 years ago anything over 8000 foot was a very big train. Bigger trains = less crews and locomotives. Unfortunately it is a much greater risk. Any train with autoracks has tons of slack...
How did we ever make it in the olden days with no A/C?
I remember sitting in a back seat of a Gray 1978 Impala with dark red vinyl seats and no A/C in the St Louis summers, 98° and 98% humidity. We had to keep towels on the seats to keep them from burning you if you where wearing shorts.
If...
Loaded on a railcar in the Detroit area, either CSX or NS will pick up the car from the auto loading facility, heads west to either Chicago or St.Louis the railcar is then interchanged to either BNSF or UP as either a full train or switched into a different train. if its UP to southern CA its...