07-12-2010, 01:20 PM
For those who don't know: culm is the impurities removed from coal when it is "washed" and graded. EBT "washed" the Broad Top Mountain coal in a Chance Sand Settling Plant in Mt. Union. I do intend to operate a small scale coal operation on the line as well. There isn't a lot of coal in or around Seven Mountains, but I will have a small tipple up on the mountain that is fed by an open pit mine at the summit of the mountain. The open pit mine will not be modeled, but a chute on the tipple will remove the culm from the tipple to a large pit.