The trains are in longer segments than ever before with the move to "precision scheduled railroading":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqdsQ8pFM2s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision_railroading
Sixty-eight thousand American railroad jobs were lost between 2015 and today due to PSR, from a local-maximum* of ~210k in April 2015 to ~142k in December 2021:
https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES4348200001?amp%25253bdata...
[*] Down from 2.2 million railroad jobs in 1920, but BLS data only goes back as far as 1947.