Coal via Potomac Yard

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How old is the PE plant in Alexandria?  C&O was
putting 8-12 trains (80 33ft cars each) to PY each day
until the late 40s.  This works out to 32-48K tons a
day assuming 50 tons per car.  I am pretty sure that
PY and the generating plant would not have used all
this coal.  Would domestic and govt building use in DC
taken up the rest of the volume?

Philip Taylor
 
--- nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org wrote:
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> Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 03:11:34 +0000 
> From: nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org
> Subject: Re: Coal via Potomac Yard
> 
> I can't speak to N&W coal that might have been
> detoured off the Valley line, but I know that C&O
> coal
> moved up the Washington Sub to PY in the 1960s and
> '70s was destined for the Potomac Electric
> generating
> station in Alexandria, not for shipment north of the
> Potomac. The plant also burned N&W coal, but I don't
> know its routing. 
> 
> Bill McClure
> 
> 
> March 22, 2005
> 
> Hello, Jim:
> 
> Bill raises a good point.  Of course, there was also
> a
> carload or two every day or so to the Alexandria
> Electric Power Company 1 KW generating station on
> Union Street near the Wilkes Street tunnel.  I
> suppose
> that was the former WA&MtV Ry power source that sold
> some electricity locally to downtown before
> household
> juice was common.  I also expect that was N&W coal,
> although I suppose some of it could have been
> sourced
> from C&O-located mines and received in interchange
> at
> Potomac Yard?  Or at Orange, Virginia?
> 
> GN&GM,
> 
> Frank
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