Black Gold Fills Railcars to Power America's Energy Grid

This video is from a recent trip I made to Princeton, Indiana.
Real-Time footage begins at 7:53
Wide view of the facility at 12:06
Closeup of the coal chute at 18:00
Coal being fed into the loader at 33:40
Neat view of the hoppers being loaded at 44:27
After seeing how a cargo ship is loaded with coal in the below video, I wanted to see how the trains that bring that coal to the ships.
• Coal on the Great Lake...
I try to explain the basics of how a train is loaded in this video.
Here is a link describing the mining process used at this mine:
www.ucsusa.org...
Here is a link to a video showing the engineer's point of view while a coal train is loaded:
• Loading CN Coal Train ...
Here is more information on how scrubbers work and reduce the pollution from coal plants:
www.duke-energ...
I found an interesting article while researching this video from the University of Cincinnati. A group of faculty and students were given a safety tour of the facility in 2019. The article shares everything that's done to keep the workers safe in a potentially very dangerous industry. It's worth a read when you have time:
med.uc.edu/dep...
This video was a lot of fun to film and I really hope you enjoy it.
I will post the link to it's Kentucky counterpart as soon as it's published.
Let me know what you think and please add any additional info in the comments.
Until our next trip, I hope you have a great day!

[@nkyrailfan]

Real-Time footage begins at 7:53 Wide view of the facility at 12:06 Closeup of the coal chute at 18:00 Coal being fed into the loader at 33:40 Neat view of the hoppers being loaded at 44:27

[@Gonnygbs]

I believe if you put the timestamps in the description KZbin automatically shows them as chapters in the video.

[@nkyrailfan]

Thank you. I was not aware it automatically did that. I'll add them to the description.

[@terryjennings2791]

Nice work again Christian. Great drone work and editing as usual. Always like the fast speed action, can’t imagine how slow it must look in real time. I look forward to your videos because I always learn something. Thanks for another informative and entertaining video. Amazing what it takes to keep the lights on!

[@nkyrailfan]

Always glad to hear you enjoyed the video, Terry. This was an interesting and fun one to record. I did have to remind myself to not move the drone so the sped up shots wouldn't look too shaky. It was a lot of hit record and wait for a few minutes.

[@Rtzee]

Incredible. Thanks for the time you put into this video!

[@nkyrailfan]

Thank you. I'm very glad you enjoyed the video.

[@jacksonsdrones]

Great Video Man! It’s always Cool to see Railroads get the Job done! Great Footage as always, and Great Narration! Keep Up the Spectacular Work! 👍

[@nkyrailfan]

Hey Jackson! I'm glad you enjoyed it. This was a lot of fun to record. I hope everything is going well for you.

[@jacksonsdrones]

@@nkyrailfan I'm doing just fine! Haven't got to film the 50 Cardinal in a while but were gonna try to this week! Keep Up the Great Work Man! You Videos are Always a Treat to Watch!

[@parrott350]

Truth ! Good information with great details. Excellent video, even at 8x speed, it was slow ! great work best regards, chuck

[@nkyrailfan]

Thank you, Chuck. I'm glad to hear you enjoyed the video.

[@lnrailroad3215]

Amazing video as always!!

[@StormySkyRailProductions]

Fantastic video and thank you for the documentation. Enjoyed watching and have a wonderful upcoming weekend.(Steve)

[@nkyrailfan]

Thanks, Steve. I do appreciate it. I hope you all have a great weekend as well.

[@StormySkyRailProductions]

Your very welcome and thank you very much also.@@nkyrailfan

[@cncpgreatlakesdiv4896]

Awesome video thx for posting.😊😊👍👍

[@nkyrailfan]

Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it.

[@danherrmann8755]

Thanks for the video. I have driven past many times. Now I have a general idea. How deep is the mine. Later.

[@nkyrailfan]

They're mining coal as far down as 565 feet below ground level according to the latest data I could find. It looks like the seam is between 450 ft and 650 ft below the surface.

[@mickwg]

i once hauled coal from the Gibson, IN mine to the Princeton, IN mine. i drove a daycab with a 39 foot frameless end-dump trailer. i will say the Beelman drivers were nice to the company i drove for at first but then they got kind of irritated we were there.

[@CriticoolHit]

Thank you! very cool. The coal has to be dropping through that chute at such an incredible rate to fill a car in 2 minutes perfectly like that. I wonder how many tonns/hr it's doing.

[@nkyrailfan]

I'm glad to hear you enjoyed the video. It is incredible how quickly it's able to fill up those hopper cars. If I find out how quickly it's able to fill a car I will let you know.

[@randydobson1863]

hello NKY Railfan & it's is Randy and i like yours video is cool & Thanks NKY Railfan Friends Randy

[@nkyrailfan]

Hey Randy. I'm glad you enjoyed the video!

[@davidspragg8310]

Get that coal moving American needs you.

[@Gonnygbs]

nice video

[@AllanLoveJr]

Get every video you can get as much as possible. Because. The rate this Administration is going. Mining coal is coming to an end.

[@pleiku887]

Do you know what's in the white tanks?

[@nkyrailfan]

I'm not sure but I think it's water to spray onto the coal when it's hotter and drier outside to prevent fires. Just a guess though.

[@charlesp3764]

Lots of batter power for the electric cars

[@CheaddakerT.Snodgrass]

Did anyone notice anything at 50:19

[@nkyrailfan]

I've watched it a few times and am not noticing anything. What am I missing?

[@CATBARSik..]

Уголь самая дешевая энергия. Обогрев дома, паравозы.

[@ralphaverill2001]

That sulfer dioxide gas from burning high-sulfer coal turns into sulfuric if released into the atmosphere. It precipitates out as acid rain. Those sulfer scrubbers are an absolute necessity on hi-sulfer coal-fired power plants.

[@PatrickBryan-kn5fn]

I ❤ coal. I live in Norfolk VA. Norfolk and Western used to roll coal train's around the clock . now not as much ships would be lined up in Anchorage at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay 15 to 20 now it's not as much. Miss those days it would put me to sleep at night clackady clack over the diamonds .

[@nkyrailfan]

@PatrickBryan-kn5fn I'm actually planning a trip to Lambert's Point and the Newport News dock this spring. It looks like an incredible area. Any information you can share would greatly be appreciated.

[@keithmoore5306]

that's a slow loader there's some that'll load a car in minute flat!!

[@nkyrailfan]

I'm hopeful to check out some other loaders in the future. Let me know anywhere you know that has a faster loading time. I'd love to record it if I can.

[@keithmoore5306]

@@nkyrailfani've heard there's some that will do a car in minute flat but where they are? i know there's one in southeast Kentucky that's under 90 seconds a car if the mine is still open!!

[@railyardfilms6491]

I support coal trains around 4 ever

[@paulsturtz7638]

Completely worthless without captions!

[@paulsturtz7638]

Narrator talks a mil-a-minute, can't understand a word!