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["Don Bowen" <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>]

> Also, it is noteworthy that I never see railcars
> full of grains or other goods, it's almost always cars or military
> equipment.

Coal trains are an example of unit trains, a train of one cargo.  It never 
needs broken up except for maintenance and it runs from source to 
destination then back.  In the Midwest there are grain unit trains but 
mostly to move grain to the rivers for barge traffic and not as much of 
that.  Every time you handle a load you incur costs so they want to minimize 
that as much as possible.

I like trains and have read the history.  I also try to keep track of more 
recent trends.

Don Bowen      KI6DIU
http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/Journal.html