How fast is a freight train travelling?

I'm doing research for a book, and in one scene I want to have a steam locomotive stop suddenly. The locomotive uses air breaks (not vacuum) and is unladden (not carrying any ...show more

The engineer driving the Shinkansen (Japanese bullet train) from Tokyo to Kyoto is having a nice day until he rounds a bend and suddenly sees a slow-moving freight train on his track. Both trains are travelling west, with speeds vs and vf respectively...

if a train is travelling at 90mph and hits a fly travelling at 1mph, in the exact opposite direction (or -1mph in relation to the train), then the fly's speed would have to change to match the trains speed (+90mph) as it splats on the windscreen, and...

the speed of a passenger train 6mph faster than a freight train. the passenger train travel 340 miles in the same time it take sthe freight train to travel 310 miles. Find the speed ...show more

What is the difference between a local freight train and a through freight train? Please let me know thank you.

a train 120 m long, travelling at 90 km/hr overtakes another train travelling in the same direction at 72 km/hr and passes it completely in 50 seconds.Find (1) the length of the second train in metres (2) the time they would have travelled at these speeds...

A passenger in train P travelling at 1km/min uses his stop watch and finds that another train Q travelling in opposite direction, completely passed his window in 3sec. If the length of train Q is 87.50m. find its speed?

I've always wondered when you hear a freight train horn blast in the middle of the night: is that an engineer doing something required by law, or is it some guy running a train that is doing it at intervals whenever he personally feels like it? There...

A freight train leaves a station with a speed of 30 mph. A passenger train leaves 1 hour later traveling at 50 kph. At what time will the passenger train overtake the freight train.