Big Boy rides again
People lined the railroad right-of-way west of Cheyenne on Saturday, waiting for a train to carry them back to an earlier time.
Union Pacific
Time to jump in the pool, Wyomingites, by Pete Simpson
The Pete Simpson Forum has generated a lot of great discussion about who we are in Wyoming, so let's keep the conversation going. Moderator's comments.
Lubnau: Children might die without Wyoming coal exports
Getting Asia hooked on cheaply produced PRB coal would delay the development of more efficient and lower greenhouse gas emission energy resources. From a climate change standpoint, why would the world’s most influential nation encourage developing countries to repeat our own Victorian Age model that built our industrial revolution?
Two Wyoming towns wither while company asks for $100M to bring about salvation with coal-to-gasoline plant
Many residents of the towns of Hanna and Medicine Bow foresee a time when there will be too few people and too thin of an economy to keep going their towns going. To them, the proposal by DKRW Advanced Fuels to build a coal-to-gasoline plant offers salvation.
Shifting markets haven't tripped up PRB coal
Naturally, there’s some concern among Powder River Basin producers that eastern utilities will tap coal resources closer to home that have higher Btu content and lower transportation costs. But there’s not been a great deal of coal-switching. Each coal-fired unit must be carefully dialed-in to the specific blend of coal its fed. Switching coal sources and recalibrating these units is not easy or inexpensive.