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International Railroad Discussion > How does freight traffic in India work?Date: 12/04/18 20:13 How does freight traffic in India work? Author: inCHI From what I have seen (in video) Indian frieght trains are about 60 cars long, and always are unit trains. I'm wondering how that network does unit trains of box cars, for example. How could they manage to get boxcar traffic in such uniform, large quantities?
I found a website called "Indian Railway Employee" that has some interesting info: ----------------------------Mughalsarai yard – Largest Marshalling Yard in India and Longest in Asia
Does anyone know when it was that the whole network discountined piecemeal loading? Seems like some railroads in the US would love to pull that off if they only could. Date: 12/05/18 17:20 Re: How does freight traffic in India work? Author: Waybiller I believe they did this starting in the late 1980s as part of Rajiv Gandhi's railway reforms. About the same time as they retired steam.
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