Although US coal consumption has fallen dramatically since 2005, the country still consumes millions of tons a year, and exports tons more—much of it transported by train. Now, new research shows that ...

“U.S. Rail carloads declined in April primarily due to decreased coal shipments,” said Association of American Railroads (AAR) Chief Economist Rand Ghayad. For the fourth month of 2024, U.S. railroads ...

In the early 1840s, a group of businessmen in the Philadelphia area became aware of stories of untold wealth of cannel coal, a very special coal which would also yield coal oil, which existed in the ...

The last thing you’d expect a railroad coal car to do is take flight. But one tried in August 1926 at the John B. Hull & Son fuel business on upper Main Street in Great Barrington. Hull in 1900, ...

In Fort Dodge, there is a restaurant called Mineral City Mill and Grill. South of town, there is an off-highway vehicle park ...

In 2010, a subsidiary of Australia-based mining giant Ambre Energy proposed building a similar coal terminal at Longview.