Cattle-based fuel runs Oklahoma-Texas passenger train

Houston Chronicle ^ | April 20, 2010 | KELLY P. KISSEL

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Non electric is totally verboten.

[mountainlion]

They still run steam locomotives out west here where nostalgia is not forbidden. Cheyenne Wyoming has one of the largest steam engines ever made in a park. There are steam engine rides in Dillon and southern Colorado where you can ride a steam engine.

[PAR35]

There is an electric freight line in northeast Texas. Runs from an open pit soft coal mine to a powerplant. You can spot it crossing I-30 between Texarkana and Dallas.

http://www.trainweb.org/southwestshorts/txumartinlake.html

Picture and writeup.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

‘There are steam engine rides in Dillon and southern Colorado where you can ride a steam engine.’

There are quite a few tourist ‘dinner trains’ with steam engines in the East.

[Willie Green]

There is an electric freight line in northeast Texas. Runs from an open pit soft coal mine to a powerplant.

So they burn the coal to produce the electricity that they use to haul the coal???

Well that's a good GREAT example of how "self-sufficiency" can cut OPEC out of the loop!!!

Thanks for the info!

[PAR35]

Except now apparently they are bringing in high quality coal from the west instead of just burning the local soft coal.

But traditionally, yes.

[Grizzled Bear]

So they burn the coal to produce the electricity that they use to haul the coal???

Well that's a good GREAT example of how "self-sufficiency" can cut OPEC out of the loop!!!

Willie, Willie, Willie...

You once posted... "Of course you've already planted your head firmly up your butt and are either gullible enough to think that our planet has an infinite supply of Oil or simply stupid enough to not comprehend the market economics of supply and demand."

Your line of reasoning, such as it is, begs this question. Do you believe our planet has an infinite supply of coal? Willie, the planet does NOT have an infinite supply of coal! For the love of Ford, Willie, think of the children!

I've seen your pictures Willie; I've read the book and watched the movie and I'm not impressed. Willie, if you really want to impress me (and you know you do) you'll show me trains with pebble bed reactors moving under their own power. I'm talking nuclear trains, Willie. How's THAT for self sufficiency? Willie, you know you love it! Best of all, Willie, the government and the government's friends can own and control them. Ain't that cool! Imagine what Bill Ayers could do with a train powered by a nuclear reactor!

Is that Radical enough for you, Willie?