Eastern Railroad Discussion > vehicle cars

I just saw a video of a high priority container train, and it had a Maxi-Max vehicle car about 4 cars from the rear end. Is it normal for a Maxi-Max vehicle car to be in somewhere other than rear end?

I forgot to add, the Maxi-Max vehicle cars are the articulated cars, i think CSXT and KCS are some of the RRs that own them.

I don't think there is any rule that says it can't be anywhere in the train.

when in forstora oh last arg. a honda train come in from the south it was 100% maxi car carriers . long mable 100 cars long????

bobgfla Wrote:
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> when in forstora oh last arg. a honda train come
> in from the south it was 100% maxi car carriers .
> long mable 100 cars long????

I don't know if they've changed, but a few years back when they first started
running the Automax trains (I think that's the proper term for those cars :)
on the B&O, they were usually 35 cars, which works out to about 6000' or so
(they're a little shorter than 2 regular autoracks, which are about 90' each)