RAILROADS' COAL LAND HOLDINGS; Anthracite and Bituminous Roads Discuss Their Position In View of Hepburn Law Requirements. NEW CLAUSE EFFECTIVE MAY 1 Some Roads Relying on Charter Privileges ...

The operator of a pair of Midwest power plants wants $22 million from BNSF Railway, according to recent documents filed with ...

Today's Reading & Northern is a robust freight railroad specializing in anthracite coal transport. Despite the decline of bituminous coal, anthracite demand has surged due to its use in ...

FreightWaves features Market Voices – a forum for market experts with unique knowledge from numerous transportation sectors and other critical expertise. Coal is fundamentally "sedimentary rock ...

But there were many obstacles to the Government’s taking the coal industry into its portfolio. Bituminous coal is mined in 26 States and, unlike power and railroads, cannot readily be fitted in ...

But railroads’ efforts to keep coal burning—and all those tons of carbon flowing into the sky—have been hidden in plain sight for decades. Two new studies unearthed their influence this fall.

The largest item was $617,800,000 for fuel, consisting of $519,007,000 for bituminous coal (28% of the country’s output), $75,867,000 for fuel oil (about 20% of total production), $18,195,000 ...

According to the AAR (Association of American Railroads), coal accounted for 32.2% of originated tonnage for Class I railroads (XTN) in the United States. In the previous year, the share was 31.6% ...