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Coal hauling on a transitional western layout
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[quote user="bpickering"][quote user="1435mm"] <P>Coal sources in the West that shipped heavy amounts by rail in the 1950s would be:</P> <P><deleted list of many Western states...><BR></P> <P>[/quote]<BR><BR>How about Washington/Oregon, esp. the Colombia River gorge? Thinking of doing UP along there....<BR><BR>Brian Pickering<BR>[/quote]</P> <P>Depends on era. Washington was a significant coal producer (Cle Elum, Centralia) in the early 1900s but by the 1940s its coal production was very low. A lot of D&RGW, UP, and URY originated coal moved into eastern Oregon and Washington for home heating and steam-generation at industrial customers such as sugar refineries, but as you approached the coast, fuel oil from California predominated as the heating and steam-generation fuel.</P>
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