Massive coal breaker, Pennsylvania's last, is coming down
The old breaker is about 100 miles northwest of Philadelphia in a region that holds nearly all of the nation's anthracite, a pure grade of coal that spawned the railroads, powered America's ...
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Coal Breaker Communities
Other breakers were built in a wide open space where coal had been discovered and a settlement, like Wanamie, grew up around the breaker. For many years, anthracite has served as my artistic muse. From 2000 …
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Massive coal breaker, Pennsylvania's last, is coming down
This undated photo provided by Reading Anthracite on April 29, 2015 shows the St. Nicholas Coal Breaker in Mahanoy City, Pa. In the early 20th century, St. Nicholas opened as the crown jewel of a ...
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Reading & Northern
6. Rolling through New Ringold PA. RBMN 425 was built by Baldwin in 1928 for the Gulf, Mobile & Northern and later the Gulf, Mobile & Ohio. 7. RBMN 425 rolls into Tamaqua PA. The switch to the left leads …
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"Children of the mine" – The Coal Region's breaker boys at …
"The breaker boy of the anthracite coal regions is in a class by himself," wrote a reporter for The Times of Philadelphia on July 28, 1902 in a story entitled, "Boy Life in the Coal Mines." "In no other part of the world are there found boys at work at so tender an age, earning so much or laboring so hard as they do in the great, black, dust-clouded …
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Drifton Coal-Breaker
Coal is taken from the ground in uneven clumps and boulders, so "coal-breakers" were developed to break the coal into smaller, more consistent lumps that could be shipped (and shoveled into …
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Good Place (S) to Buy Coal in Northeastern PA?
Hot Air Coal Stoker Stove: Harman Magnum (MK1) w/ PC control Coal Size/Type: Rice. ... Depending on the size and age of your house you may not need enough coal to make it worth your while to buy it at the breaker. When I lived near Reading, I only used 2 tons to heat a 2,200 sqft, 2 story house built in 1989. ...
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Coal co. seeking zoner approval to build new breaker in …
WILLIAM PENN – A new coal breaker — the first in decades in the heart of the Anthracite region — could soon be built south of this West Mahanoy Township village if the company has their way with township zoners this month. Keystone Anthracite, of Girardville, is seeking township approval to build the new breaker on Girard Estate …
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Directions to New St. Nicholas Breaker | Reading Anthracite
The New St. Nicholas Breaker is a location for Bulk Coal pick-ups. ... READING's NEW St. Nicholas Breaker will be to your LEFT at Duncott (between Heckscherville and Minersville). Sign in Duncott shows ST. CLAIR as a LEFT turn. At this point the New St. Nicholas Breaker is in view. Turn LEFT and proceed approximately 200 yards to the Breaker.
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Pennsylvania's last massive coal breaker comes down, …
Matt Slocum / AP. Rich Morgan, with Reading Anthracite, looks over a mining site near the St. Nicholas Coal Breaker in Mahanoy City, Pa. Modern anthracite plants, like the one operated by Reading ...
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Massive coal breaker, Pennsylvania's last, is coming down
MAHANOY CITY, Pa. (AP) — When coal was king, its castle was the breaker — an imposing fortress that crushed, washed and sized billions of tons of …
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Blaschak Coal Company
Reading Anthracite Coal Company. Available in HO scale or O scale. Not available at all times due to availability of inventory. Custom painted to order. These Heritage cars have a "Return to" specific coal breakers in the upper left hand corner. Return to St Nicholas Breaker, Mahanoy City, PA. Lehigh Valley Anthracite Coal Company.
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Huber Breaker Tour
Central section of the Huber Breaker, Ashley, PA, 1939-1976. Last remaining anthracite coal breaker. Northern section of the Huber Breaker, Ashley, PA, 1939-1976. Our Tour Leader from the …
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Reading & Northern
The Reading, Blue Mountain & Northern ran their excursions over a segment of the old Pennsy Schuylkill Branch out to Hamburg until they acquired the former Reading lines from Conrail. ... Lehigh Anthracite Coal's GE model 44 or 65-ton switcher used at the Greenwood Breaker just east of Tamaqua on the former Lehigh & New …
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Authorized Dealer Directory & Locator for Reading Anthracite
About Reading Anthracite; Anthracite Coal Products. Products and Services Overview; Commercial & Industrial Usage; Coal Heating – Residential & Business; ... Directions to New St. Nicholas Breaker; Reading Anthracite Home; Reading Anthracite Sales & General Inquiries 1-800-654-7792 1-570-622-5150. Anthracite Dealer Directory.
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New St Nicholas Breaker – Underground Miners
In 1963, with a shift of mining operations, Reading Anthracite Company constructed a New Saint Nicholas Breaker near Minersville, Pennsylvania, in proximity to its open pit mines and tremendous coal reserves. The New Saint Nicholas Breaker became the World's Most Modern Heavy-Media Preparation Plant and home of Famous Reading Anthracite - the …
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Reading & Northern
From old structures and stations to coal breakers and bridges this is old time anthracite railroading. Where the Lehigh Division lacked the anthracite business, the Reading …
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Everything You Need To Know About Rotary Coal Breakers
Rotary Breakers are one of the most suitable pieces of equipment for scalping off undesirable material and performing size reduction in a single operation. Designed primarily to process run-of-mine coal feeds, Rotary Breakers can accept large lump sizes at high capacities. They are durable, low-maintenance, low-power …
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Mining engineer marks Anthracite Heritage Month with …
Eric T. Bella, mining engineer, looks over anthracite coal Wednesday at the Reading Anthracite New St. Nicholas breaker in Norwegian Twp.
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Mining engineer marks Anthracite Heritage Month with …
David McKeown / Staff Photographer Eric Bella, mining engineer, looks over some anthracite coal at the Reading Anthracite New St. Nicholas Breaker, Norwegian Twp., on Wednesday, January 24, 2024.
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Beer Money: Working the Reading & Northern
Reading & Northern took over the former Conrail Reading Cluster of branch lines serving the remaining coal mines in the Anthracite region. ... Only the Jeddo No. 7 Breaker at Harleigh, the Shaft Breaker in and a few other small coal breakers still managed to remain in business. The Central Railroad of New Jersey lost much of their ...
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Legacy: abandoned mine impacts in Pennsylvania's Appalachia
Coal conveyor at the abandoned Old St. Nicholas Breaker in Mahanoy City, PA. Once the world's largest coal breaker, Old St. Nick's produced 12,500 tons of coal per day. It is currently in the process of being demolished and was the last standing complete breaker in all of Northeastern Pennsylvania.
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Mount Carmel developer hopes to make 'clean coal' at old breaker
A worker cuts metal Friday at the site of a former breaker at Savitski Brothers Coal Sales, Atlas. ATLAS - Dennis Molesevich Sr. has another plan to turn blight into business. ×
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Collieries and Coal Breakers
A coal breaker is the coal preparation plant. Thus said, it should be noted that all collieries did not have coal breakers, but all coal breakers were associated with one or more collieries. Not every single mine opening had its own breaker and not all breakers had washeries to clean the coal.
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Volume 42 Fall 2013 Number 4 Last of the Giants
anthracite coal breakers, were in the early stages of demolition. The Huber Breaker in Ashley, just outside of Wilkes-Barre, and the St. Nicholas Breaker in Mahanoy near the town of Shenandoah, were both significant steel structures built in the 1930s and were two of the largest breakers ever constructed to wash, break, and size large pieces
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Locust Summit Breaker
The Locust Summit Central Breaker was demolished in the fall and winter of 2002. Lost were the dual-rotary dump house and a early Reading hopper car still sitting in the structure. Historic photos of the Locust Summit from …
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Maps of Old NEPA Breakers & Collieries ? | Anthracite Coal …
Stoker Coal Boiler: Van Wert VA1200 Coal Size/Type: Buckwheat/Anthracite. Post by Richard S ... Northern Field. Post by Chris Murley » Fri. Feb. 15, 2008 1:17 am well I do have this to offer: ... I have the origional photo of the Sibley Colliery, Old Forge. Owned by the Elliott McClure Co. This was the first breaker built in …
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St. Nicholas Central Breaker
The existing coal operators in the region opposed the creation of the P&RC&I, fearing a monopoly in coal shipments and higher prices. 12 Several independent operators formed the Laurel Run Improvement Company on May 18, 1871, only to be acquired by the P&R to form the P&RC&I.. The P&RC&I bought approximately 100,000 …
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