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https://www.sightline.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/congestion-map-snippet.gif224153Washington’s rail system is congested in places. Adding dozens of coal trains each day, without also big new capacity improvements, could cripple the system with gridlock. All that is common knowledge. Less well-known is this: coal shipments are already causing problems. To understand what’s going on, it’s useful to zero in on the northwest portion of the state’s railway system.