How do trains pull so much weight? I’ve seem them with hundreds of freight and gas tanker cars.
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One thing they do is leverage momentum. When they come to a complete stop, they can’t just press the gas and go forward like a car. There is enough slack between each car that the train can slowly pull forward and starting pulling each car one at a time. If it was just one big long thing that was completely rigid, it could not function.
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