When I was a young kid our home had a small room in the basement on the front-facing side of the house. It was used as a coal bin and I vaguely remember seeing a coal delivery where metal chutes connected the rear of the coal truck to the basement "window" in the bin. I'm sure my father was very happy when we convered to oil heat! Thanks for this video with some interesting information. Cheers from Wisconsin!
Thanks Andrew. I remember my grandfather's house having that. And the coal pellets that were being used. This was back in the 1970s. Of course, you see that all over the place here in Northeastern PA. I also remember seeing a "Blue Coal" sign on a neighborhood garage that was there for years in the 1980s and possibly into the 1990s.
Thanks Rob! I'm making plans to be your way. I'm doing eastern Kentucky and along the Clinchfield south and circling southwest in your direction. I want to do it in the early Spring before the leaves come back to the trees and while it's not hot out. That's the plan for now, if it changes I'll let you know. BTW, I'll have your 3 vids done this month. I've broken ground on all three.
Just a note about the “BLUE “ coal from Ashley; the original blue coal was naturally occurring in The Wyoming Valley . When you cracked a chunk of coal open you could see a blue sheen in the mirror like finish. Most of it came out of the Ashley mine hence the trademark. It wasn’t until later on that the Huber breaker started spraying the top layer of coal on both railroad cars and dump trucks with the blue paint as a marketing tool so wherever the coal went people knew what mine it came from I know all this from working with my dad who was a certified miner and an owner operator coal man in the valley
Trains are such efficient movers of such enormous quantities of energy. It's said that a gallon of diesel takes 3-9 gallons of fuel to extract, process, and transport to the end user. Anthracite went from $5 to $9 per 40lb at Tractor Supply here on the OP in PNW, where coal is scarce.
Great video. It sucks, but ultimately necessary that changes in energy sources has to happen. We recently lost a coal fired power plant in southern Maryland that had converted to natural gas. With that, the CSX Popes Creek Subdivision no longer hosts coal trains and is mostly dormant these days :-(
When I was a young kid our home had a small room in the basement on the front-facing side of the house. It was used as a coal bin and I vaguely remember seeing a coal delivery where metal chutes connected the rear of the coal truck to the basement "window" in the bin. I'm sure my father was very happy when we convered to oil heat! Thanks for this video with some interesting information. Cheers from Wisconsin!
Thanks Andrew. I remember my grandfather's house having that. And the coal pellets that were being used. This was back in the 1970s. Of course, you see that all over the place here in Northeastern PA. I also remember seeing a "Blue Coal" sign on a neighborhood garage that was there for years in the 1980s and possibly into the 1990s.
Thanks rail fan trucker AC. You remind me of Mr Peabody the cartoon years back he did factual things. I do remember the blue coal
Cool that you remember the blue coal.. Thanks for watching DJ.
Looking forward to watching Part 2. Excellent video AC.
Thanks for watching Hans, next week.
I always enjoy and learn something from your videos. Thanks!
Thanks for watching Vincent. I'm glad that you can get something out of them.
Great video AC as always. Happy Thanksgiving
Thanks for watching David, same to you.
Love your videos and informative style!
Thanks Ken!
Fantastic video!!!
Finally another AC classic!! Been missing you buddy, glad to see you're back and loved the new video!
Thanks Rob! I'm making plans to be your way. I'm doing eastern Kentucky and along the Clinchfield south and circling southwest in your direction. I want to do it in the early Spring before the leaves come back to the trees and while it's not hot out. That's the plan for now, if it changes I'll let you know. BTW, I'll have your 3 vids done this month. I've broken ground on all three.
Great story. I have been waiting for this one, I knew it was coming sooner or later. Wonderful series.
Thanks Donstor, there's at least one more (part 3) to this series, maybe more.
Just a note about the “BLUE “ coal from Ashley; the original blue coal was naturally occurring in The Wyoming Valley . When you cracked a chunk of coal open you could see a blue sheen in the mirror like finish. Most of it came out of the Ashley mine hence the trademark. It wasn’t until later on that the Huber breaker started spraying the top layer of coal on both railroad cars and dump trucks with the blue paint as a marketing tool so wherever the coal went people knew what mine it came from
I know all this from working with my dad who was a certified miner and an owner operator coal man in the valley
Trains are such efficient movers of such enormous quantities of energy. It's said that a gallon of diesel takes 3-9 gallons of fuel to extract, process, and transport to the end user. Anthracite went from $5 to $9 per 40lb at Tractor Supply here on the OP in PNW, where coal is scarce.
Hi AC OUTSANDING Video thx for the post ATB TO YOU.😊😊😊👍👍👍
Hi! Interesting transit, video and camera work! Greetings. Stefano
Hello Stefano.. Thanks for watching.
Howdy AC!! Nice to see ya!!
Thanks Tony, backatcha.. Hey, bad news, I won't make it to the Old Dominion this year as planned but I will make it next year so be ready to railfan!
@@Trains21 Like Tom Bodett at Motel 6 says; "We'll leave the light on for ya!"
Great video. It sucks, but ultimately necessary that changes in energy sources has to happen. We recently lost a coal fired power plant in southern Maryland that had converted to natural gas. With that, the CSX Popes Creek Subdivision no longer hosts coal trains and is mostly dormant these days :-(
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Why are they called breakers instead of crushers?
Don't know, but that's what they're called in the northeast.