Sentences with phrase «coal trains go»

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Whatever privation was noted — no spare parts for trains, unsafe conditions in coal mines, empty shelves in shops — they would simply say: «Yes, the Gang of Four... but they're gone now.»

«Look, if a train derails carrying coal, no big deal,» he said, because coal trains are unlikely to cause significant harm to others nearby when they go off tracks.

Lots of images: Russian roulette, elephant in the living room that everyone is ignoring, 800 pound gorilla in the room that nobody is paying attention to, canary in the coal mine (Arctic ice melting rapidly year by year now), a train wreck in slow motion, the list goes on and on.

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).

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.

And which would be built — if everything went according to the plans then circulating — just north of town, meaning trains spewing coal dust chugging through the streets she knew and carrying coal destined for Asia.