How do you do capture an image of a coal train from a car window when it takes 2 minutes to pass each other going in opposite directions?
The story starts in the top left corner with three engines pulling (as you travel clockwise) fifty wagons then more engines helping pull the remaining wagons. Full, each wagon carries 100 tonnes meaning the biggest trains are bringing about 10 000 tonnes of coal into port each trip. They are unloaded at the rate of 8 000 tonnes per hour before heading back to the mines for refilling. About 15-20 trains per day come into Gladstone allowing the port to export over 50 million tonnes of coal per year - 75% of the cargo carried out of Gladstone in the 1 200 vessels per year that leave the port.
@jenrobcarr Thanks Jennifer. The info is dear to our hearts! The coal terminal was my husband's worksite for 45 years. To China? No rather Japan, South Korea, India, Italy and France
