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A 14.7 million pound walking dragline tears open the Wyoming prairie to feed 20 coal trains a day, and the name its builders gave this monster at Black Thunder points straight at the most familiar star pattern in the northern sky
Out on the Wyoming prairie, far from any highway, the ground opens up like a wound a mile wide. A machine the size of a sports stadium made this, crawling on giant steel feet while most of America slept. It…