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A little train blogging from the article linked in the diary:

Last coal marks end of Saarland mining - The Local

The last ten wagons of around 1,000 tonnes of coal trundled out of the Duhamel shaft, marking the end of a 250-year history of mining in the region.

Mine director Friedrich Breinig spoke of a, "cesura of an epochal time."

"There is hardly a family on the Saar River which never had anyone working in a mine," he said according to the Saarbrücker Zeitung newspaper.



*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Sat Jun 30th, 2012 at 03:56:26 AM EST
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