Speaking of technology, while we were driving from Tuba City to Kayenta, we noticed what looked like the tracks for an electric railroad on the north side of the highway. What is it used for?
You saw the tracks of the Black Mesa Railroad. It is one of the many private railroads in Arizona, but the only electric railroad in Arizona. It hauls coal mined at Black Mesa to a power plant in Page, Arizona.The Navajo Generating Station is the largest coal powered plant west of the Mississippi. It is also the largest chemical plant in the region, producing gypsum when limestone, loaded in its scrubbers absorbs sulfur compounds from the water vapor that result from combustion. Ash is sold for other industrial uses, including the manufacturing of cement which supports the building boom in Arizona these recent years. The gypsum is of sufficient quality that it is trucked to plants that convert it into the wall board like that found in most modern homes. It is worth stating that pollution from Navajo Generating Station is not the cause of the degradation in the atmosphere in the Grand Canyon seen (or is that obscured) in recent years. When I was in col lege during the early seventies, w
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