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The longest train ever was a BHP Iron Ore train of 682 ore cars that travelled 447 miles (719 kilometres) from the company's mines to Port Hedland, Western Australia on June 21, 2001. The train was 7.53 kilometres (4.57 miles) long and required eight locomotives—two at the front, another two after the first 168 cars, another two after 168 more cars, another locomotive after 168 more cars, and another at the end of the train. Prior to that, the longest train was a Norfolk & Western train of 500 coal cars that travelled 253 kilometres between Iaeger, West Virginia, U.S.A and Portsmouth, Ohio, on November 15th, 1967. It weighed 42,000 tonnes and was 6.5 kilometres long. (source)
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