Thursday, February 16, 2006

Weight of Rail

Do you have ... the total weight of the rails used by the CPRR in initial construction?

3 Comments:

Blogger CPRR Discussion Group said...

Assuming a single track using 60 lb rail, and excluding yards and sidings:

690 mi x 2 rails x 60 lb/yard x 5280 ft/mi x 1/3 yard/ft = 145,728,000 lbs

145,728,000 lbs x 1/(2204.62262 lb/metric ton) = 66,101 metric tons

66,101 metric tons / 690 miles = 95.8 metric tons/mile

2/16/2006 9:31 PM  
Blogger CPRR Discussion Group said...

... For the entire transcontinental railroad (including the Union Pacific, i.e., 1776 miles total instead of 690 miles for the CPRR), it would be about 66,101 x 1776/690 = 170,138 metric tons of rail.

2/03/2007 10:08 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

i read on a site that it took over 200,000 net tons of iron to complete the railroad

4/11/2011 4:06 PM  

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