I downloaded the PDF - very interesting. California is not evenmentioned, and Washington state shows an 80% decline from 1918 to the late 1940's -down to 899,000 tons or less than fifty 50 ton

Comment about coal tonnage thru the Twin Ports... Keep in mind that all those ore boats that went east with iron ore would be coming back empty, if it wasn't for coal, which is the reason water

Jim, You might find this Bureau of Mines / Minerals yearbook 1950

Thanks, Dennis, I see what you are talking about. Always glad to be corrected when I screw up. Were the drain grooves in the center of the boards? Seems unlikely that the roof would be made with

Group I have a question regarding the dates of K brake phase out. I know K brakes were banned from interchange in/about 1953, but when were K brakes banned from new installations and heavy

John, I have also heard/read that coal was what brought Columbia to Pittsburg. According to Bert Ward's MOUNT DIABLO COAL MINE RAILROADS, coal was being commercially taken

Tim O'mentioned about wondering how much coal came in the Twin Ports. OnPost 65627, I answer this question (how many tons came into the Twin Ports, tosome degree) and provide source data. For

Dave Nelson wrote: It's a common misconception that smelting iron from ore requires fuel. The only fuel used is at start-up, when the materials have to be gotten hot. Once the reaction between

Except for the Kaiser Steel plant at Fontana and coke for foundries, I don't think that there was much demand for coal in Southern California during the stream era after the uses of fuel oil was

I think hearing reviews from consumers are arguably more helpful in this kind of situation since for the publisher it is hard to be objective about your product or publications. I echo what Bob and

The key point below is the absence of any mention of smelting iron ore. You need coke to do that. The mention of the Open Hearth Furnace is saying they took pig iron and by melting it and adding a

The Santa Fe owned most of the coal fields in Kansas. The Alma branch that I model was built in 1880 as the Manhattan, Alma and Burlingame Railway in cooperation with the Union Pacific. The Union

George Courtney wrote: This could certainly be true, but a lot of coal was moved by brokers. I knew a relative of such a broker when I lived in Pittsburgh. He bought from a number of mines and

Garth, Thanks for that pointer. I have from another source that Columbia received pig iron from the mills in Utah. The jury is still out on coal needs prior to the end of the war. The mill was

I'm not that knowledgable, but isn't one factor getting a contract? A foundry in Chicago might want to buy coal from a mine in eastern Kentucky. But that mine has a contact with a steel mill in Gary

Oops. I didn’t see that Charles had already replied. My email software puts “RE: [STMFC] Shipping Coal” into a separate thread from “RE: [STMFC] Re: Shipping Coal”. Mea culpa.

This looks like a job for Super [Charles] Hostetler! Seriously, what you probably want is to look at the ICC 1% Waybill analysis for state-to-state distribution of coal. It should very clearly

And there's that photo in C&NW In Color Volume 1, p. 97 - a 1953photo of a Reading hopper (bearing the famous anthracite red/black logo) on the dock in ManitowocWisconsin! :-) Tim O'Connor

In the 19th Century and the early part of the 20th the west end of the Lackawanna railroad was Green Bay, Wisconsin. DL&W president Sam Sloan was also president or an officer of nearly 30 other

Gary, Bob, Thank you for your clarification r.e. the GN hopper count. Yes, it does include all the H class cars listed in the ORER. When I constructed my index of the Jan 45 ORER, I broke out the