Coal Trains Golore

It's not hard to notice all the coal moving threw Colorado. The Average coal train I see is over one hundred cars. The cars are usually carrying one hundred tons more or less. There are six to eight Diesel-electric locomotives pulling, pushing there heavy loads.

There's A power plant near interstate highway 70 & 225 that is burning the stuff (coal) twenty four-7, 365 days every year. The plant produces steam that can be seen for miles. Train's are coming from the north every few hours fully loaded. The power plant creates it's own weather, Meaning the stem is rising and forming in to clouds, quite large at times. the empty trains head back to the north.

Not all the trains stop hear, they are also moving coal to at least three other states. They move threw a east-west corridor from mines in western Colorado then head east to Denver. some loads go to Kansas and Missouri. Some head to Texas and Arizona.

Back to the power plant it has this Chimney Stack. The flue gas from combustion of the fossil fuels is discharged to the air; this contains carbon dioxide and water vapor, as well as other substances such as nitrogen, nitrous oxides, sulfur oxides, fly ash and mercury. Solid waste ash from coal-fired boilers must also be removed, although some coal ash can is recycled for building materials.

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