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 If we seek the real predecessor of the modern railroad track, we must go back three hundred years to the wooden rails on which were drawn the little cars used in English collieries to carry the coal from the mines to tidewater.

 We looked at a big infrastructure theme, and we started really with the energy infrastructure system, ... We own coal companies that mine the coal. We own the rails that transport the coal. And we own the construction companies that build coal plants. Coal is half of our energy.

 The Pennsylvania was the first American railroad to lay steel rails and the first to lay Bessemer rails; it was the first to put the steel fire-box under the locomotive boiler; it was the first to use the air brake and the block signal system; it was the first to use in its shops the overhead crane.

 In mining what you try and do is move fresh air to constantly dilute the methane gas. Methane is a potential fuel for an explosion in a mine. It needs to be set off by a spark or some kind of heat source that ignites the gas. Also, in coal mines you have coal dust created by grinding of the coal. There are other things. That coal dust is also potentially explosive.

 There have been millions of dollars poured into this place to take that temporary, wooden camp and turn it into a modern city that could support the modern army. It's taken 65 years to happen.

 Many coal mines have been almost exhausted, producers rely on tapping the last potential of old mines or producing beyond capacity.

 They are lignite mines, a very soft, brown coal. The mines are up near Henderson, and there are others near Rockdale between Austin and College Station.

 Closing of small coal mines won't affect the country's demand for coal.

 This has to be gradual. We cannot close the small coal mines completely because they produce too much coal.

 Yet, if God wills that (this war) continue, until all the wealth piled by the bond-man's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash, shall be repaid by another drawn with the sword,
  Abraham Lincoln

 Beams have been such a strong market that we have had no time to concentrate on railroad rail. Now with the other mill producing the smaller beams, this will free up time to roll railroad rails.

 Grades have been eliminated everywhere and the whole route has been modernized and strengthened by the laying of one hundred to one hundred and fifty pound rails.

 I ended up calling the Texas Railroad Commission and they directed me to a firm that conducts hot tapping of railroad tank cars.

 The governor has a pretty solid track record on renewable energy and clean air initiatives. The coal proposal veers off the track a little bit. We aren't real thrilled with that proposal.

 They're modern, clean-coal power plants. They're not like the ones built 50 years ago.


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