How are trains able to start with so much cargo?

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Just passed by a train with a hundred or so cargo crates. how do they start? I understand how they continue moving, but how do they overcome the inertia of starting it? It has to be like thousands of tons, and I can’t imagine a bunch of coal being able to start moving that. unless of course it can, in which ELI5

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I have no idea but an educated guess is that the cargo trains also have acceleration?

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