How do train schedules account for the lengths of trains? Suppose a freight train has a 8:15 arrival time at a station, but the 8:00 train has 400 cars — how is that managed?

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How do train schedules account for the lengths of trains? Suppose a freight train has a 8:15 arrival time at a station, but the 8:00 train has 400 cars — how is that managed?

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if such a massive train were to be on a track its schedule wouldn’t be accounting for its length, but instead for for how it would take ot start and get it to speed and stop it at the station.

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