One aspect of this train that I've often wondered with other manifest freights is the blocking of the consist. For example, you see the flatcars carrying vehicle frames spread out through the train. It would appear on the surface that they're all headed to the same destination, and would thus be all clustered together in one block (much like the 86-foot boxcars on the head end). I've seen the same curiosity in another "really long train" video, this time a manifest with several distinct cuts of flatcars carrying pipe loads:
(BTW, anyone else think the MTH flats modeling the ones in the above video thumbnail come up a wee bit short in the diameter of their pipe loads? all the real-life examples I've seen look like the ones above)
---PCJ
