Here is a video shot by Joe Perry of California, showing the Union Pacific "monster train" that raised a ruckus when it ran through the.... Here is a video shot by Joe Perry of California, showing the Union Pacific "monster train" that raised a ruckus when it ran through the southern part of the state recently. It's 3½ miles (about 5½ kms) long, and uses nine locomotives spaced along the length of the train. This is about a mile (1.6kms) longer than the more usual very long trains.

it took a little over four minutes to pass the camera stand, and there were the inevitable complaints about motorists having to wait so very long at intersections, but all I could think of was that every one of those double stacks of shipping containers was one and possibly two trucks off the roads, a good thing for traffic anywhere along its route!

Not to mention that trains use one-third to one-quarter the fuel per ton-mile that trucks do, and far, far less space...people should just shut up until they've thought about something a little bit before complaining.



Oh, yeah, and the railroads build their own "highways" and pay property tax on them; trucking requires (and destroys as it uses it) roads built at the public's expense.