[Wonder Warthog]

"The transition from massive to not massive must have happened last year when U.S. coal production dropped to 740 million tons."

If so much is being produced why are all these guys out of work???

"Lack of takeaway capacity in the Marcellus/Utica basin makes finding a job in that game quite an undertaking."

And what, precisely, causes a "lack of takeaway capacity".

[Hamiltonian]

The people are out of work because production was ~a billion tpy a few years ago.

Here's some on Marcellus takeaway capacity: Courtesy of Range Resources