Vote!

Trains can get 500 miles per gallon of fuel.

Trains can get 500 miles per gallon of fuel. To be perfectly clear, a train that does this typically isn’t carrying any freight. Trains that carry one ton of freight get just below 500 mpg. Moving freight by train is about 3 times more fuel efficient than doing so by highway.  You might be thinking 500 mpg sounds more like 20 times the fuel efficiency of highway freight, but the 500 mpg figure is just for one ton of cargo. Both trains and, for example, the trucks you see carrying...

read more...

Published By: OMGFacts - Tuesday, 26 June, 2012