Very nice composition and light. Looks like a PR photo for NS...something one might see in a board of directors' publication.
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Thanks! It'd probably be a better PR photo if there was actually a barge being loaded up with coal, lol!
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Massive.
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| Posted by mmi16 on June 15, 2016 | |
Would look better with a vessel being loaded!
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With the coal consumption across the US slowing (thanks Obama) more scene like these, and those of sidelined locomotives are becoming more common than ever.
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Look, I don't think RailPictures was ever intended for political discourse. If you'd like to believe your Republican talking points that Obama killed the coal industry, nothing I say is going to change that. But your fundamental flaw in logic is that you infer that American coal consumption as the reason why Coal Pier 6 has less traffic. The coal moved from this pier is intended for international markets - mostly European and South American steel producers, who are simply buying less from us. It all comes down to cheap energy. In the US, if you can get natural gas cheaper than coal, people are going to do that. Too bad that goes by pipeline and not as much by train.
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Just stating the facts that have been well documented. Not being political. Just acknowledging the already known.
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Coal is a finite resource. Why is it we have to constantly handcuff ourselves to the 19th century?
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Well, if it cheers anyone up, that Moran towboat has a pair of EMD 710s in it...
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