From: gl4317@yahoo.com

In article
<1150810053422162717.604051dpeltier-my-deja.com@news.aioe.org>,
  wrote:

> "conklin"  wrote:
> > Is the geo car ever put on the end of these 100+car oil trains?  If not,
> > why
> > not?
>
> Because a.) the slack action at the end of a 100-car freight trains is not
> safe for occupied passenger cars, and b.) they want to test as many miles
> per shift as they can, so they want to operate on priority trains. As I
> said, the usual practice is to run them as stand-alone trains.


There is also c.) If it is a track geometry car at the end of a 100+ car
oil train, it will discover any critical safety issues with the track
after the train has already derailed and exploded.

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