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Originally Posted by swimmer_spe
Those are not switchbacks... switchbacks are not usually visible on a map of a 700km+ map.
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I'm starting to think you don't understand rail at all. How tight do you think rail switchbacks are?
In 2018 the average CP train length was over 7200 feet which is over 2 kilometres.
CN guidelines allow for trains up to 12000 feet which is over 3 and a half kilometres.
Do you think switchbacks for these behemoths are on the scale of cars and people? The KVR switchbacks coming up out of Penticton are dozens of kilometres long for a 2km climb. Honestly, that's probably not even enough for the 10k feet trains they're running nowadays.