Full Title: Heavy Traffic Still Ahead
Author(s): Terry C. Whiteside
Publisher(s): Western Organization of Resource Councils
Publication Date: February 1, 2014
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Description (excerpt):
This report, “Heavy Traffic Still Ahead” (HTSA 2014), provides an update to HTA 2012 and describes the current picture of the plans for coal production and rail movements from current and proposed PRB mines and origins to existing and proposed PNW export coal terminals. Based on revised plans and additional information that has become available, this report also reevaluates the impacts that would result from railroad transportation of potential PRB to PNW export coal traffic.
This report primarily focuses on potential U.S. export coal traffic from PRB mines in Wyoming and Montana to current and proposed PNW export coal terminals. As a result, the traffic analyses included herein exclude PRB export coal movements to non-PNW terminals (such as PRB export coal movements to Superior, Wisconsin or Gulf Coast posts such as Houston and New Orleans), and non-PRB export coal movements to the PNW (such as Canadian metallurgical and thermal coal movements and potential U.S. coal movements from Utah and Colorado).