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Montana Coal Train

Photo: Montana coal train carrying power plant fuel
A coal train rumbling across Montana is a mile and a half (2.4 kilometers) long yet carries barely a day's fuel for a large power plant. The U.S. burns more than a billion tons of coal a year.
Photograph by William Campbell/Corbis

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