![[Empty coal cars sitting on track.
Photo by Allen Best.]](00990084.jpg)
While our side of the Tennessee Pass rail line has been out of service for a couple of years,. the Union Pacific has found a use for its tracks on the west side -- storage for several 100-car coal trains, like these sitting between Wolcott and Edwards.
The cars are parked because demand is down, on account of a depressed Asian economy (a major market for low-sulfur Colorado coal) and a warmer-than-usual winter in the Midwest, which caused electrical generating plants there to burn less coal.