Sentences with phrase «car coal train»

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The train is comprised of a locomotive, coal car, three wagons, and a caboose all of which can seat both young and old alike.

You can almost see as a vestige of train trestle and this is kind of a strange like a coal car or something and you can see that he's transitioning into his more kind of iconic black and white works.

He has used strong words and imagery before to drive home points, including comparing cordons of coal cars heading to power plants to the death trains of the Holocaust (because of the mass extinctions foreseen by many biologists should warming go unabated).

The typical coal train is 100 to 120 cars long — a mile of coal.

Last week, the Sierra Club and three other groups announced that they would file suit against Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway and six coal companies over shipments of coal in open - topped train cars.

Engaged in theatrics with his Senate open window stunt and his characterizing coal cars as Holocaust death trains.

However, the climate benefits of shifting from fossil - fueled transportation to electric cars, trucks, buses and trains only pencil out if our electricity itself is clean — that it's produced through carbon - free resources such as solar, wind, and hydroelectric, rather than fossil fuels such as coal, oil or fracked gas.

By contrast, it takes many train cars of coal to produce the same energy — with correspondingly larger environmental effects.

Coal is also stored on - site at mines and coal export terminals, and roughly 67 percent of it is delivered by train, typically in uncovered freight cCoal is also stored on - site at mines and coal export terminals, and roughly 67 percent of it is delivered by train, typically in uncovered freight ccoal export terminals, and roughly 67 percent of it is delivered by train, typically in uncovered freight cars.

A relatively low - cost solution would be to simply require railroad companies to cover train cars carrying coal and electricity generation companies to cover coal piles.

The authors present the image of a coal train that stretches 55,000 miles, long enough to circle the globe twice, carrying 314 million metric tons of carbon - the amount of CO2 emitted by U.S. cars and trucks in the year 2004.

Yeah, some things are going to be taken off the rails (mile long coal trains, being one of them), but over the road freight needs to go ON the rails and more trucks pass any given busy interstate highway point than rail cars (other than coal trains...) of an equivalent capacity.

The emissions from the 721 million tons of coal in the South Porcupine is equivalent to the annual emissions of over 234 million passenger cars — that's nearly all the cars in the U.S.. Another way of measuring this coal — especially important for those in the Pacific Northwest resisting the industry's efforts to ship it through their communities for export to Asia — is that 721 million tons of coal is enough to fill 6.5 million train cars.

I have fond memories of putting my Little Kiddle dolls in the coal cars on my brothers train platform.