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[quote user="Stourbridge Lion"] Let's try to keep the topic related to the OP's post and not stray into areas outside of Railroading. Thanks... <img src="/TRCCS/emoticons/icon_smile_cowboy.gif" alt="Cowboy" /> [/quote] The nation's electric utilities are the largest single consumer of coal in the United States.  As they switch from coal fired to natural gas fired steam electric stations, their doing so, as I pointed out in my post, will have a major impact on the fortunes of the nation's coal hauling railroads. Without an understanding of how the electric power industry uses coal, the story would be incomplete. The latest issue of Business Week has an article entitled Coal's Future is Rocky at Best. It reinforces many of the points made in my post.  It also contains an encouraging observation by Jack Koraleski, CEO, Union Pacific, who foresees a strong summer for coal shipments.  He is referencing shipments overseas of U.S. coal, most of which will be transported to the ocean shipping points by rail.   Restricting posts to only what happens on the train, as opposed to the upstream and downstream activities leading to or from the railroad as a transport solution, is unnecessarily restrictive
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