Who owns this coal train and its locomotives--a Montana mine company, a utility power company, or a leasing railroad equipment company? Note that each of the coal cars has a cover. First evidence I have seen currently of an effort to reduce coal dust escaping while coal is in transit from mine to utility.
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I think the coal train is owned by a plant near Spiritwood, ND. (just east of Jamestown) The DMVW has access to a coal mine somewhere north of Bismarck ND
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It's lignite coal, which necessitates the covers. The cars are marked DMVX, I believe owned by DMVW but privately marked to avoid per diem/per mile. Train loads at Falkirk Mining Company on the DMVW at Underwood, ND and runs to Cargill Malting, Spiritwood, ND. Looks like Cargill has a small generating station there, but they really burn the coal for heat necessary in multiple steps of the barley malting process.
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Great River Energy owns the co-generation power plant at Spiritwood. Supplies steam to both Cargill Malt and Great River Energy's own ethanol plant.
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