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Coal Loader Photos

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Loader on the C&O near Prince, WV in 1969 -Donald Haskel 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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NW SD45s 1762 and 1782 sandwich C30-7 8024 eastbound at Looney's Creek, VA with the Dismal #1 Mine Run and 163 empties, 14 Nov 1981 -Everett Young		 tnsmoss3prepplant.jpg (11435 bytes)
Clinchfield Coal Company's Moss No. 3 preparation plant at Clinchfield, VA on the Dumps Creek Branch near Carbo, 7 Sep 1984 -Everett Young
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AECO unit train loadout at Typo, KY, 18 Aug 2008 -Donald Dunn		 tde002fredericktown.jpg (11494 bytes)
An empty Detroit Edison unit train rolls south on the Monongahela Railway. The rusted tipple is part of the idled Republic Steel mine operations in Fredericktown, PA 8 Oct 1991 -Ed Wolfe		 tcsxbluegrass3loadout.jpg (14669 bytes)
Bluegrass 3 loader on the Davis Spur just south of Hazard, KY in the spring of 2005 or 2006 -Donald Dunn
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This Island Creek coal facility near Prince, WV on the C&O served a tunnel mine, a shaft mine and a strip mine and generated 50 or more loads a day, Jun 69 -Donald Haskel		 tcsxharlanloadout2.jpg (9288 bytes)
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Unit train loadout on the old L&N Cumberland Valley mainline just north of Harlan, KY, 26 Dec 2006 -Todd Parrott		 tcsxadaloadout.jpg (8406 bytes)
CSX flood loader at Ada, KY on the former L&N, 26 Dec 2006 -Todd Parrott
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Abandoned tipple on the ex-B&O near Rockwood, PA, 2005 -Travis Brant		 tcsxtipplerockwood1.jpg (11663 bytes) tcsxtipplerockwood4.jpg (10955 bytes)
More photos of tipple near Rockwood, PA, 2005 -Travis Brant		 tcsxmcvickertipple.jpg (10914 bytes) tmisctecoswitcher.jpg (11407 bytes)
McVicker tipple and switcher at Levisa Jct, KY on the old C&O, 5/07-Eric Miller
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Cumberland Collieries loader in East Norton, VA, the middle track is the NS main to Bluefield, 2005-Eric Miller		 tnsnortonloader.jpg (6943 bytes)
Compact truck-dump loader in the wye at Norton, VA, 2005-Eric Miller		 tnsblackwood1.jpg (9487 bytes)
Blackwood No.1 on the ex-Interstate RR mainline, Blackwood, VA, Jan 28th, 2006-Eric Miller
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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. Top 5/24/98-Dan Bourque, Bottom 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