RE: RE: RE: 92 Cars loaded (reply)... The New Elk Coal Mine loaded its first full train — 92 cars — Friday at the yard in Jansen. It takes one week to mine the coal for the full train, one week to truck the coal to the Jansen yard and 18 hours to load the train. The coal is then railed to the Port of Galveston and loaded onto ships where it is shipped to China. The mine employees 350 people. TI photo by Tom Murphy