Purely anecdotal, but it seems to me the manifest trains I see in the Fresno area are MUCH shorter. Just about every manifest I see looks like about 60 cars with two locomotives on the head end and sometimes one on the rear of the train. I was used to seeing 100 car trains.
Are the trains, in fact, running smaller consist now, and if so, why?
Are the trains, in fact, running smaller consist now, and if so, why?