Following the Trucks—Episode 2: The Tower
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Following the Trucks—Episode 2: The Tower
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What happens when you follow a truck to the end of the road?
Carbon County, Utah. The morning after Site 10. She made coffee. At nine o'clock, the trucks started again.
She drove toward them.
Helper, Utah sits at the bottom of Eccles Canyon — named not for a person but for a machine. The helper engines that pushed coal trains up a grade too steep for a single locomotive. The town became the help.
At the mouth of the canyon: a loadout silo. A unit train staged on Sunday waiting for Monday's haul. A pipe conveyor threading through the canyon ten feet above the ground — raised in 1993 to allow the local elk herd to pass underneath without interruption.
The coal goes over them. The elk go under.
The supply chain comes into focus.
Episode 2 of 12. The full account is in Coal: Book One of the Fuel the Future Trilogy, publication forthcoming.
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