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News Wire: Coal, minerals, and grain up big in latest AAR report

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Posted by Brian Schmidt on Thursday, June 15, 2017 9:22 AM

WASHINGTON — Freight railroads saw a 6.2-percent increase in traffic last week over the same period last year, the Association of American Railroads reports. Broken down further, U.S. railroads hauled 265,717 carloads, up 7.1 percent compared...

http://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2017/06/15-aar-traffic-june-10

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Posted by Euclid on Friday, June 16, 2017 7:53 AM

 

It looks like the champion is Old King Coal.  I thought he was on his deathbed because of the cheaper natural gas.

 

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Posted by BOB WITHORN on Friday, June 16, 2017 8:26 AM

[quote user="Euclid"]

 

It looks like the champion is Old King Coal.  I thought he was on his deathbed because of the cheaper natural gas.

 

 

Looks like "King Coal" found some 'Viagra'.

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Posted by MidlandMike on Friday, June 16, 2017 10:37 PM

Power companies let their coal stockpiles get too low.  They are not building any more coal fired plants, while retiring existing ones.

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