Laura Helmuth on Nostr: Today I learned that there are no limits on freight train length, and they can be ...

Today I learned that there are no limits on freight train length, and they can be miles long. A new study finds that long trains are more likely to derail than multiple short ones -- which is intuitive but has been hard to quantify. “We desperately need a law in this country to cap the length of a train” https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/longer-freight-trains-are-more-likely-to-derail/