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One of the advantages that the eastern railroads had over the western roads was coal in their back yards. Yes, there was coal at Carbon Wyoming, but the locations of mines in the west are few and far between. Look at West Virginia and Pennsylvania where coal mines are everywhere. I am willing to bet that these two states had more miles of rails underground in the coal mines than the railroads had on the surface. (No facts to back up this assumption!) Also the coal in the east was anthricite (NE Pennsylvania) or bituminous (West Virginia, west Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Ohio) The coal found on the plains was sub bituminous which had a lower energy content than the coals in the east. However, this lower energy content coal was far superior to throwing logs on the fire when you consider the scarcity of trees in the plains.
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