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The Principality of Sealand is an unrecognised micronation on HM Fort Roughs (also known as Roughs Tower),
An offshore platform in the North Sea. It is situated on Rough Sands, a sandbar located approximately 11 kilometres (6 nmi) from the coast of Suffolk and 13 kilometres (7 nmi) from the coast of Essex. Roughs Tower is a Maunsell Sea Fort that was built by the British in international waters during World War II. Since 1967, the decommissioned Roughs Tower has been occupied and claimed as a sovereign state by the family and associates of Paddy Roy Bates. Bates seized Roughs Tower from a group of pirate radio broadcasters in 1967 with the intention of setting up his own station there. Bates and his associates have repelled incursions from vessels from rival pirate radio stations and the UK's Royal Navy using firearms and petrol bombs.
In 1987, the United Kingdom extended its territorial waters to 12 nautical miles, which places the platform in British territory. As of August 2024, Sealand has only one permanent resident.
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I suspect the wagons have a similar size, although 53-foot long instead of 40-foot long containers might be more common.
Depends a lot on the type of cargo. Three and Five-pack double-container cars are popular with the railways because they have less weight and less rolling resistance (and less maintenance needed). Since standard shipping containers are quite light, even when filled, they don't need the extra axles so they just articulate them with shared bogies, which of course means they cannot be separated.
This is a classified as a single car, carrying ten containers. (well, nine in this photo, but you get the idea). 81m long.
How many of these on a train tends to depend on railroad philosophy and location. BNSF (pictured below) runs shorter trains, 11,000ft (3.3km) long is typical with over 300 containers
UP, which owns Bailey, prefers to run longer trains, with 18,000-20,000ft long (5.4-6km) and over 500 containers not being unusual.
That's a network average (including shunting, so not 'highway' mileage) in excess of over 500-ton-miles to the gallon of fuel (going by CSX figures, and they're a little hillier terrain), driven by two people. I'd say that's pretty darned efficient.
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