Steam Loco Coal

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Thanks to Jim Nichols and Ed King for their replies on this.  Now if can only figure out where the sand came from! 

Jim Brewer

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  Subject: Re: Steam Loco Coal


  Jim, remember the mine at Williamson where they brought the coal from the mine across the river from the Kentucky side in a bucket conveyer to the coaling station in the yard? Well, that is a mine from which they got coal for their locomotives. Don't know if there were others, but they sure used that one.  Jim Nichols

  nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org wrote:

    While we are trying to discover how locomotive sand was transported and where it came from, does anyone know where N&W obtained its coal for its steam locomotives?

    Certainly, it was on-line and probably one of the operations owned by the Pocahontas Land Corporation?  But which one(s)?

    Obviously, it was shipped in N&W hoppers! <vbg>

    Jim Brewer

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