For six months, researchers pointed the equipment—which includes a camera, an air sensor, a weather station, and an artificial intelligence processor—at railroad tracks transporting coal ...

Ralph Buchspics from Ashland works at the same mine ... tracks,” Buchspics said. But Ralph isn't mining coal like his grandfather, he's working with a patching trowel. He is building a new train ...

A coal train bound ... operators of the train,” Sease said. “But it can take some time.” Train cars that are still mobile will be re-railed and continue down the tracks to Newport News, ...