coal train
Black rock transport
A coal train is a freight train that hauls coal, typically in long strings of open-topped hopper cars running between mines and power plants or shipping terminals.
Coal trains can stretch over a mile long: The coal train rumbled through town three times a day.
The term sometimes appears in discussions of energy infrastructure and environmental policy.
- black lung diseaseRespiratory damage from coal dust
- engineMachine producing motion
- steamHeated water's gaseous form
- locomotiveRailway pulling machine
- railcarTrack-bound transport vessel
hopper · pithead · wagon · boxcar · rolling stock · freight · caboose · company town · labor history · mine shafts · mineral · strip mining · track · energy production · stoker · shipment · long haul · railroad crossing
- trainslocomotive, locomotives, steam locomotive, steam locomotives, electric locomotive
- rail transportlocomotive, rail network, platforms, heavy rail, terminus
- heavy vehiclessemi truck, semi-truck, eighteen-wheeler, 18-wheeler, big rig
- historic transportcarriage, horse-drawn carriage, coach, phaeton, stagecoach
- coalanthracite, bituminous, lignite, slack, culm
- coal industrystrip mining, anthracite, underground mining, coke, lignite