pennsylvannia anthracite coal mine stuctures and trackage

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can someone point me to some pictures of Pennsylvania coal mine facilities and trackage? preferably anthracite mines from the 1920s served by the reading

thanks

greg

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Library of Congress online.

www.loc.gov

then click “American Memory”

Then select Architecture/Landscape… opens 9 collections.

Then select “Built in America: Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey, 1933-Present”

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Morning Sun Books has a few books on the subject. Maybe try a Google search on the subject for more info & sites. Roger Huber

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Gidday, Have you tried this site?

http://www.readingrailroad.org/reading/rdg_indus_coal.shtml

Cheers,the Bear.

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i’ve been unsuccessful trying to locate an image (and hence web site) using google’s image search. The library of congress site is a good suggestion, but was equally unsuccessful. There’s also the Shorpy site. Had better luck including the word tipple.

i do have one picture, i believe it’s in the horton book. i’m familiar with the Reading historic and modeler sites.

was hoping someone knew of some specific sites.

thanks much

greg

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Anthracite (much less common than bituminous) was found in the Scranton, PA area. You might try doing a search along those lines. And there’s a mine tour just down the road from Steamtown in Scranton that I believe is/was an anthracite mine. They should have a web site…or could steer you in the right direction if you e-mail them. Worth a try…

Tom

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If you do a search on the “williamstown colliery”, it should yield some articles and images for you. Here’s one to get you started:

http://www.dauphincountyhistory.org/research/photos/weeklyphoto/5

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found two books that look promising

Pennsylvania Coal Mine Tipples

Early Coal Mining in the Anthracite Region ¶

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http://www.der-foerderturm.de/penna/coal-breaker-galerie.htm

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WOW! Looks like you hit the jackpot!

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for a small layout, large breakers shown on web sites of earlier posts would require too much space an be overwhelming.

here’s a collection of images that i believe are from Pennsylvania Coal Mine Tipples. While none i’ve seen show tracks, i think that they are a small (intricate) and interesting structure that would fit nicely on a small layout depicting a branch.