Freight trains have steadily grown longer over the decades, especially since the late twentieth century.
The idea of the “really long train” is both a practical reality of modern freight railroading and a source of fascination that stretches back to the earliest days of industrial transport, when railroads quickly learned that efficiency depended on moving as much tonnage as possible with as few crews as possible.
“The City of Homes”
Anytime a city is named on “Svengoolie”, the hosted horror movie television program, they play a running gag audio clip with a crowd asking “BERWYN?” The show has been shot in Chicago since 1970, while hosts Jerry G. Bishop and Rich Koz are natives of the Chicago metro.
