Orbital View: Baby, It's Coal Outside

A swirl of coal cars in Norfolk, Virginia:

Train cars filled with coal are stationed in Norfolk, Virginia. Operated by the Norfolk Southern corporation, Lamberts Point Pier 6 is the largest coal-loading station in the Northern Hemisphere and serves at the temporary depot for the company’s fleet of 23,000 coal cars.

A photo posted by Daily Overview (@dailyoverview) on Feb 10, 2016 at 1:50pm PST

A Daily Overview commenter has mixed feelings over the photo:

So cool...except for that whole coal thing

Norfolk Southern says the Lambert facility has an annual throughput capacity of 48 million tons. The company has been courted by a Canadian counterpart over the past several months for a possible merger, but it’s not going very well:

Norfolk Southern has sternly rejected all of Canadian Pacific's takeover offers even as they approached roughly $30 billion. Norfolk Southern has said the offers have been so “grossly inadequate” that there wasn’t much point in discussing a possible deal.

Talk about a coal shoulder.

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