Kinney and Lila
I have created two new pages covering recent developments in Utah coal mining, and the railroads that serve them.
The Kinney No. 2 mine is being developed at the location of the former Union Pacific mine that dates back to the 1880s. The location is just north and east of the town of Scofield, in Pleasant Valley. The site is already served by Union Pacific’s Pleasant Valley Subdivision, and the mine owners have said that they plan on shipping coal by rail from their Kinney mine to West Coast and Gulf Coast ports for export to customers worldwide. Mining is expected to start in late 2013.
The Lila Canyon mine is a new coal mine located on the edge of the Book Cliffs, just south of Horse Canyon where Carbon County Railway served the Geneva Mine from 1942 to 1982. Small-scale mining started at Lila Canyon in 2010, with the coal being trucked to existing loadout facilities near Price, Utah. Large-scale mining is expected to start in 2014 after a longwall mining machine is installed in the Lila Canyon mine.
