Appalachian Railroad Modeling

Coal Loader Photos

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Stoker, KY in 1984 - Stuart Thayer photo

These are in no particular order right now, perhaps when I get some more I'll organize them a little better. There's nothing here that you won't already find on other pages; it's just a way to get them all together for those of you who love the places where coal trains begin.

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Abandoned tipple on the ex-B&O near Rockwood, PA, 2005-Travis Brant	More photos of tipple near Rockwood, PA, 2005-Travis Brant	McVicker tipple and switcher at Levisa Jct, KY on the old C&O, 5/07-Eric Miller
Cumberland Collieries loader in East Norton, VA, the middle track is the NS main to Bluefield, 2005-Eric Miller	Compact truck-dump loader in the wye at Norton, VA, 2005-Eric Miller	Blackwood No.1 on the ex-Interstate RR mainline, Blackwood, VA, Jan 28th, 2006-Eric Miller
Tierney, WV circa 1980-Bob Slavy	Democrat, KY 8/84 -Stuart Thayer	Stoker, KY, Aug, 1984-Stuart Thayer
Southeast Coal Company prep plant at Calla, KY. 7/86- Stuart Thayer photo	Shamrock Coal Company loader at Clover, KY. 5/1/87- Stuart Thayer photo	Toms Creek, VA 5/25/98-Dan Bourque
Ramsey, VA. This loader served both the Interstate (Southern) and the N&W (shown) 5/24/98-Dan Bourque	Golden Minerals at Tacoma, VA on the ex-N&W. Note the holding bin made from an offset side hopper in the right photo. Left 5/24/98-Dan Bourque, Right 10/15/97-Keith Clouse	Hawthorne, VA, just east of Norton on ex-Interstate tracks 5/24/98-Dan Bourque
Triangle Dock, Elkhorn City, VA- Bob Helm	Not exactly a coal loader, but a common site in the modern-day coal fields anyway. Ammonium Nitrate loading facility just north of Coeburn, VA. Ammonium Nitrate arrives in covered hoppers, is unloaded into the storage bins, and loaded into trucks for shipment to the mines 5/25/98-Dan Bourque