I pray I’m wrong, but it doesn’t look good.
Word on the live wire is that they’ve gotten into the area of the mine where they think the men are, and the conditions that are being reported do not appear survivable. Further, I gather that the owner of the mine has mat in a hurry-up fashion with the families of those trapped, before supposedly going to a press conference, which as far as I can tell, has not occurred yet. This situation has remained essentially unchanged since 10am eastern. The ‘feel’ I’m getting is not one of large hopes, in spite of their words.
As a side note, we here in western NY have noted some seriously altered coal train activity in the last few days. Increased frequency of unit coal trains along with some very abnormal power assignments on them, suggesting a short term reaction to a shortage being created somewhere in the system.
Perhaps there’s no connection, but the timing of the sightings here, is interesting, and even a little unsettling to long-time railfans.
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