Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uiuccsb!chaltas From: chaltas@uiuccsb.UUCP Newsgroups: net.railroad Subject: Re: 4-8-8-4 Big Boy - (nf) Message-ID: <5996@uiucdcs.UUCP> Date: Sat, 3-Mar-84 22:40:01 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.5996 Posted: Sat Mar 3 22:40:01 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 5-Mar-84 00:44:37 EST Lines: 10 #R:avsdT:-69100:uiuccsb:11100008:000:402 uiuccsb!chaltas Mar 2 09:48:00 1984 trains of 500 cars are indeed possible (besides on N-scale model railroads) The Norfolk and Western tried this as an experiment a while back (early seventies?) with coal trains. The trains used mid-train robot helper units. Apparently it was not a great success, as they certainly don't do this any more. For more information see (of all places) the Guiness Book of World Records. George Chaltas