http://wvmetronews.com/2015/03/31/production-slowed-at-large-mine-in-monongalia-county/ Mines have been closing and Coal production has been slowing in recent year. I've never seen any of them blame the railroad before. In a brief news release, the company said it stopped production “due to shipment shortfalls by the railroads that serve the Mine.”
There was talk up here last winter (2013-14) of severe coal shortages due to too many trains hauling Bakken crude and just about running out of coal at the local power plant. Currently, we are experiencing a severe slowdown in the taconite industry, in the last 3 weeks 1400 have been laid off at two separate mines.