When one factory lagged unloading a 130-car coal train, he pushed its managers to work Saturdays so that his trains wouldn't sit unused all weekend.

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After a wet April, a deluge in mid-May washed out gravel supporting the rails, and 15 cars on a Burlington Northern Santa Fe coal train derailed.

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In the first derailment incident, the locomotive of a train transporting coal ended up on its side after derailing on a set of points at Filton at 0230GMT on Wednesday.

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If constructed, the coal port would be the destination for coal mined in Montana and Wyoming that travels through the Columbia Gorge by train.

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