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Old 03-09-2009, 02:52 PM   #24 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Ryland View Post
well, they claim to be able to move a ton of freight over 400 miles on a gallon of fuel...
And here's why I hate that "commercial"...One single coal car has a loaded weight of 110 tons (as per wikianswers, although I did find another source that specified "120 ton coal cars" so it does seem plausible), which means when you see a loaded coal train with over 200 cars (I used to count the cars when I was a kid since there's not much else to do in a really small town), they're not getting 400+mpg.
1 ton = 400mpg
110ton = 3.64mpg
22,000ton = 0.018mpg
Still more efficient than a semi, but I just hate when people so obviously lie with statistics, even when they're telling the truth.
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