Transnets longest freight train in the world test run a success

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Updated story, seems successful test will become the new standard:

World record: Transnet just launched a four-kilometre long train, with 375 wagons | Business

It is designed to travel 861 km between Sishen in the Northern Cape and Saldanha in the Western Cape.

www.fin24.com

No that's bs, BHP Billiton Australia ran 682 cars, 7300m long, carrying 82000 metric tons of ore for a total weight of the train, largest in the world, of 99734 tons.

The SA train cannot beat that simply based on length and rail gauge, impossible. We do however hold some decent narrow gauge records!

 

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But there are many threads about that. This one is about successful test of a long freight train.

It's not the longest or heaviest freight train, that claim is bs.

 

[Gordon_R]

No that's bs, BHP Billiton Australia ran 682 cars, 7300m long, carrying 82000 metric tons of ore for a total weight of the train, largest in the world, of 99734 tons.

The SA train cannot beat that simply based on length and rail gauge, impossible. We do however hold some decent narrow gauge records!

That argument was rehashed earlier in this thread. I appended my link to the existing discussion, and am not the OP...

 

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... and am not the OP...

not aimed at you.