Engine Coal Question

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                The Shenandoah Valley Railroad initially received coal for its locomotives off the B&O. There is a dealer who shows up at the Gaithersburg Railroadiana shows that has a bunch of these billing slips. I don’t know where he (legally) got them from but that is my source.

 

Mason Cooper

 

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Subject: Engine Coal Question

 

Where did the N&W get its engine coal before the Pocohontas Mine was opened in 1883?  Was it fetched down the Shenandoah Valley RR from Pennsylvania?

 

And... wouldn't it be fascinating to discover a first person account of the conversion from wood to coal as engine fuel, complete with a listing of "wood stations" along the line ? !!!

 

-- abram burnett
 

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