The first regularly run "unit train" seem to be the "merry go round trains" run
on British Rail in November, 1965, I'm thinking on the
Manchester-Sheffield-Wath electric line
Steve Lucas.
---In cpsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, <mikesue.salfi@...> wrote:
Thanks for all the comments regarding my initial post. It seems that there
are many examples of what one may call "unit trains" prior to the term "unit
train" being first coined, those being silk trains, steam hauled oil trains,
log trains if you want to include them as well.
I'm not sure I would disqualify these trains as being unit trains just because
the term hadn't been coined yet.
And even if I can't call them a "unit train", it seems there are more than a
few examples of trains in the 1950's and prior where the entire train is made
up of one type of car, be it a reefer, or a tank car, or a coal hopper, or a
auto carrier and even a silk train.
Thanks for all the comments.
Mike
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Mike and Sue Salfi
Kitchener, ON
