The Humble Freight Train

STABILITY ENGINEERING – Volume 9 www.manhattanproject20.com 1 117-115-D The Humble Freight Train When 105 Individually Sound Machines Must Behave as One System 1. A Surprisingly Powerful Multi-Agent Analogy Consider a long freight train: • From a systems perspective, this is a population of 105 interacting actants. • They are not identical. • Some locomotives generate propulsion. Freight cars generally do not. Different cars carry different masses.