Engine coal question

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What was the distribution channel that moved the coal eastward so that
the AM&O could use it?~~Bernie Hylton

> Re: The question of where the N&W got coal for its locomotives prior

> to the opening of the Pocahontas Coal Field

>

> The Jan. 6, 1877 edition of "The Engineering and Mining Journal"

> states that coal from the Coalburg Mines was used by the Atlantic,

> Mississippi & Ohio Railroad (predecessor to the N&W Ry.) as a

> locomotive fuel.

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