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To: Brian Griffin

“A locomotive can move a ton of freight about 423 miles on a gallon of (diesel) fuel.”

I Googled that statement many times and I know from common logic that you can’t get a train to move with just 1 gallon.
AI is so much better than a search.

How many gallons of fuel does an average train use to travel 1 mile?
Grok:
Whole train: A typical freight train (e.g., 100–150 cars, total gross weight of several thousand to 10,000+ tons, with 1–4 locomotives) commonly uses on the order of 5–20+ gallons per mile, depending on load and conditions. Lighter or shorter trains use less; very heavy unit trains or those on steep grades use more.


64 posted on 10/05/2026 3:59:53 AM PDT by Haddit
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To: Haddit

Well, that (on average) works out to about the same figure for miles per gallon to move one ton.

AI is definitely built into the search in my browser (Brave). It gets downright conversational with multiple follow up questions and / or how a search is phrased. That doesn’t prevent it from sometimes contradicting itself in a few lines or even the same sentence, though. It can get almost funny if I point such things out to the “search” field.


70 posted on 10/06/2026 2:27:24 PM PDT by Paul R. (Who else but Dolly Parton could go so far by being so genuine about being so fake?)
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