Bishop stated the arrival of one
coal train per day would create 100 ship calls per year.
Not exact matches
It's like we're all in this
train which increases its speed a certain amount
per amount of
coal added, but we don't know exactly how much; we only have a range.
Trains can run on diesel as well as electricity (or
coal if the dark ages do indeed return) and provide greater hauling capacity
per unit fuel (or unit CO2 if you prefer).
Together,
coal and oil projects place an extreme strain on regional rail systems; rail - line communities could see up to 30 loaded
coal and oil
trains per day and 212 loaded oil and
coal trains every week.
Some
coal freight traffic — about six
trains per day — passes by the waterfront, from the Powder River Basin 1,000 miles (1,610 kilometers) to the east en route to and from British Columbia.
Gateway Pacific would have exported up to 48 million tons of Powder River Basin
coal each year, bringing up to 18 additional
coal trains every day through Washington, Idaho and Montana, and nearly 1,000 giant
coal ships
per year through the Salish Sea.
As many as 18 new freight
trains per day would run back and forth from the Powder River Basin of Wyoming and Montana to carry
coal to the new port.
That means (roughly) 20,000 times less
coal ship and
coal train movements and correspondingly less fuel used to drive those ships and
trains per unit of electricity generated.