[grey_whiskers]

So what’s all that freight betwee Wyoming and Kansas City?

[niteowl77]

So what’s all that freight between Wyoming and Kansas City?

Lots of "everything" (container traffic).

[hmmmmm]

This is likely tied into it -

https://www.alipac.us/f12/kansas-city-inland-port-mexico-31026-print/

Plus KC is a huge rail hub in general.

[TEXOKIE]

There is a LOT of coal being shipped from Wyoming - also a lot of grain trains. But there is a lot of other stuff too, of a needful and legitimate nature. Of course we are learning there is perhaps some not so innocent stuff.

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

It represents the Tonnage of US Class 1 Railroad traffic. You are looking at the volumne of traffic in Wheat, soybeans, and agricultural products across the central and northern plains.

[Axenolith]

Cattle and oil probably. Roughly follows old drive routes for cattle.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Powder River Basin (PRB) coal. Largest deposit of low-sulfur coal in the world.

Low-sulfur coal was mandated by past EPA regulations for electric generation.