Compacted Coal ≠ Coal

I've made a huge mistake...

I changed over one of my power plants to Compacted Coal one day after getting my turbo-fuel plant up and running, and suddenly realized how much further it allowed the coal to go, how much more efficient it was.

I got very excited, and zooped around the whole world, re-tooling all of my coal-mining areas, creating extravagant blueprints and facilities for pumping out masses of Compacted Coal, and connecting them to all of my Train and Truck networks. In just a couple days, I had finished, and I started visiting all my bases to see the trickle-down effect, since I was shipping coal all over the map...

It was an utter disaster. You probably see what happened. I got so carried away, I never stopped to make sure that Compacted Coal really works wherever Coal works. I mean, it replaced coal automatically in the Coal plants, right? "Why wouldn't it be hands-free interchangeable everywhere?" I thought.

It is not. All of my steel plants had grinded to a halt, all the tightly-packed, under-the-floor crawl-space lifts and belts jammed up with Compacted Coal they can't use. My beloved Aluminum tower, gummed-up from the bottom to top. Even the gas filters...

I feel like such an idiot. I'll spend days undoing my mess. Am I the only one who has made this mistake?