Coal is transported by train in massive freight cars known as hopper cars or gondola cars. At the mines, conveyor belts or chutes load the coal into these cars. Hopper cars have sloping bottoms with trapdoors, so the coal unloads quickly using gravity. Gondola cars, on the other hand, need rotary dumpers that flip the entire car upside down. Often, long “unit trains” with more than 100 cars move thousands of tons of coal in one trip—hauling it from mines to power plants, steel mills, and shippin
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Ever wondered how long it takes to load ~80 tonnes of coal into a wagon? Well, wonder no more! It takes about 12 seconds to load each wagon, and all up, it's about two hours from the time our trains enter the TLO balloon loop to when they leave on the run back to the North Queensland Export Terminal. | Bowen Rail Company
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