Answers: The solitary train that will stop at local industries is your local switcher. He probably comes once a day and he's purely one train. He comes out of a freight yard outside a just round the corner large city.
He get the freight cars from other trains, that probably tore through your town at 50 mph on the way to that patio. They came from some other chief yard hundreds of miles away.
But at the moment, I'd say most trains are going thousands of miles, and they don't stop for anything but crew transformation or fuel. That'd be
- Unit trains, a whole train of newly one thing for one customer. Say, a coal train from Wyoming oilfields to a Georgia power plant, or a particle train from Iowa to Virginia chicken farms, or the Barnum & Bailey circus train.
- Intermodal trains (that's truck trailers or containers). They stir between the largest cities, i.e. L.A. to Atlanta. Sometimes they unload a boat full of containers onto a train in L.A., it go straight to New York and is loaded on another boat. This is faster than sailing the boat around the Panama Canal.
The trains start at a depot, where trucks bring the nouns for the cars, they then travel a great distance to another depot, where on earth the cars are unloaded and distrubuted. You're probly not near one.
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