1950?s Pokey Farm question #2 - Coal Supply ?

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Forgive this question from an East-of-the-Alleghenies Hillbilly, but I need to ask ...

How was the coal wharf at Farm supplied with coal? Was there a mine in the adjacent mountain, which shoved coal out through an underground conduit, the coal being then raised to the coal bunker by machinery in the white elevator house ?

If that is the case, it would be very interesting to know how the railroad signaled when more coal was needed, and how amounts furnished were estimated and charged for... all information of which is now probably long vamoosed.

      -- abram burnett
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