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Gibbon, Nebraska.<br> Nebraska picture - An empty coal train headed for Wyoming. We saw many of these while we were in the northern states. A guess would be one every 15-20 minutes. Utilities have mostly switched from bituminous (soft) coal to anthracite (hard) coal from usually Wyoming. This has put many mid-western mines out of business including the ones where I grew up in Southern Illinois.
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An empty coal train headed for Wyoming. We saw many of these while we were in the northern states. A guess would be one every 15-20 minutes. Utilities have mostly switched from bituminous (soft) coal to anthracite (hard) coal from usually Wyoming. This has put many mid-western mines out of business including the ones where I grew up in Southern Illinois.
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