An empty boxcar weighs about the same as a two-bedroom house, and can be filled with 300 tons of product. Two or three 200-ton locomotives can be pulling a 120-car train, loaded with 22 tons of fuel. “It’s going to take that train longer to stop than what an engineer can typically see down the track,” said George Warren, a former Burlington Northern Santa Fe engineer. (Brian Basham/Tribune)
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