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Re:Panama Canal drought forces Maersk to start using land br... by ajb on Sunday January 14, 2024 @09:01AM (#38990429)
Where are you getting this 160 tonne figure from? An individual car can approach that, according to https://www.cn.ca/en/customer-centre/safety-guidelines-and-r....

Apparently some Australian ore trains are 43,000 tonnes (24000 tonnes of ore), according to Wikipedia (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_trains) so we are within an order of magnitude

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Re:Panama Canal drought forces Maersk to start using land br... by lcuff on Sunday January 14, 2024 @01:07PM (#38992712)
You're right. Brain burp/misread on my part. That's a figure for individual cars. Union Pacific site:

Union Pacific (main freight carrier in Southern California) gives 286,000 lbs, ~ 140 tons https://www.up.com/aboutup/reference/maps/allowable_gross_we...

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