I know subway trains probably weigh alot less than freight trains, but I’d imagine they are still super heavy so how do they manage to stop so quick?
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I mean, it’s an understatement to say they weigh a lot less than a freight train. A subway train car is SUBSTANTIALLY lighter than a freight train car, and the subway train is not nearly as long as a freight train normally is.
A freight train can be 100+ cars, with each car weighing over 100 tons, compared to 30 or 40 tons for a subway car. A full freight train would be many multiple times heavier than a subway train.
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A freight train weighs about 150 times more than a subway.
Not 150%. 150x. It’s a massive difference in scale between the two.
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