@TheEnigmaBlade @canada
With only passenger cars, the train can speed up and slow down quickly. If you chain hundreds of thousands of tonnes of cargo to it, doing station stops would require slowing down many minutes in advance, and speeding up would take much longer to get up to speed.
And just in general, passenger trains go significantly faster with different stop patterns. I’ve ridden the Cascades line that has its northern terminus in Vancouver, B.C. a lot. It comes to a full stop for all of maybe two minutes at the smaller stops, whereas freight takes large periods of time.
@TheEnigmaBlade
@canada
With only passenger cars, the train can speed up and slow down quickly. If you chain hundreds of thousands of tonnes of cargo to it, doing station stops would require slowing down many minutes in advance, and speeding up would take much longer to get up to speed.
And just in general, passenger trains go significantly faster with different stop patterns. I’ve ridden the Cascades line that has its northern terminus in Vancouver, B.C. a lot. It comes to a full stop for all of maybe two minutes at the smaller stops, whereas freight takes large periods of time.