09-09-2010, 08:57 PM
Sorry Bil I don't know where the name comes from.
Steamtrains, It breaks Anthracite coal. Soft coal, found most everywhere else uses a Tipple to sort and grade it's coal. The hard coal found in north east PA. requires heaver machinery to crush it down to marketable sizes. It has a higher BTU output than soft coal, burns with less smoke and ash, and is heaver. It's main drawback is that it needs specialised grates, a larger firebox and a strong draft or it wont burn.
This it the top of the main conveyor, and the top of the building, the other end leads into the mine. from this point the raw (Run of mine) coal works it's way down through different size screens and crushers until it reaches the bottom of the building where it is loaded into hoppers and sent to market. This is actually one of the smaller complexes. The ST. Nicholas one is at least twice the size of this one.
Steamtrains, It breaks Anthracite coal. Soft coal, found most everywhere else uses a Tipple to sort and grade it's coal. The hard coal found in north east PA. requires heaver machinery to crush it down to marketable sizes. It has a higher BTU output than soft coal, burns with less smoke and ash, and is heaver. It's main drawback is that it needs specialised grates, a larger firebox and a strong draft or it wont burn.
This it the top of the main conveyor, and the top of the building, the other end leads into the mine. from this point the raw (Run of mine) coal works it's way down through different size screens and crushers until it reaches the bottom of the building where it is loaded into hoppers and sent to market. This is actually one of the smaller complexes. The ST. Nicholas one is at least twice the size of this one.
My other car is a locomotive, ARHS restoration crew