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How many rail cars of coal does the US burn every day?

Thursday, October 8th, 2009

Scott asked: I've been told its about one rail car every second or 86,400/day. If that's true, and each car is about 50 feet long, then that means the coal we use every day would fill a train 818 miles long even if there were zero space between the cars! ...