Reading & Northern Railroad has shipped more than 1 million tons of anthracite coal for the third straight year, the company ...

SOMERSET COUNTY, Pa (WJAC) — Coal trains are a part of our landscape, and with that, unfortunately so are derailments. It was late November 1978 when a train hauling about 50 cars loaded with coal ...

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Although US coal consumption has fallen dramatically since 2005, the country still consumes millions of tons a year, and exports tons more—much of it transported by train. Now, new research shows that ...