Not 100% sure but charcoal has about a 5x lesser density than anthracite coal. A typical open hopper coal car can carry 100 tons which means it would take 5 train cars to carry the equivalent in charcoal.
8000 tons/100=80 x 5= 400 train car loads of charcoal.
They are going to burn 400 train car loads of charcoal in one day? 16 carloads per hour or almost 4 car loads per minute? Something ain’t right.
6500 BTU/pound charcoal vs 8,250 PWB or 10,500 Montana or 11,700 Illinois basin or 13,000 East Ky coal ?
“They are going to burn 400 train car loads of charcoal in one day? 16 carloads per hour or almost 4 car loads per minute? Something ain’t right.”
16 carloads per hour would be about a quarter of a car load per minute.
“16 carloads per hour or almost 4 car loads per minute? Something ain’t right.”
It would appear that your math is the something that ain’t right!