Typically, coaling stations were huge towers of steel, concrete, or timber that held 50 to 1,000 tons of coal. This coal would eventually be dumped into steam locomotive tenders to be delivered across the country. The author uses reproduced material and articles that originally appeared in Railway Age and other trade magazines of the era, and advertisements from the three major builders of coaling stations: Fairbanks-Morse, Ogle Engineering and Roberts & Schaefer. Photographs show various types of coaling stations and fueling facilities, stand pipes and tanks, and cinder conveyors. It's a great book for rail fans, historians, and modelers.
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This review is from: The Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway, Volume 2 (Hardcover)
Author Corns has studied Ohio's Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway for decades, and his passion for the subject shines through in this definitive volume. Hundreds of sharply reproduced black-and-white photographs, thoroughly captioned and most never before published, augment a detail-rich text that brings to life an important and relatively unheralded piece of American railway history.Train and rolling stock photos predominate, as would be expected, but remarkable images of long-gone stations, engine terminals, yards, and workers also grace the pages. The W&LE, itself an amalgamation of small companies, was leased to the larger Nickel Plate Road in 1949, and it is at this logical point in the Wheeling's rather tumultuous history that the author concludes his review. This book is a gem, and holds much of interest for railfans, modelers, historians, and Ohioans alike.
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A coaling station is simply a location on the railroad designated for the placing of coal into locomotive tender. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
cinder plant, engine terminal, coaling station, major builders, hopper cars, many railroads Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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A coaling station is simply a location on the railroad designated for the placing of coal into locomotive tender. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
cinder plant, engine terminal, coaling station, major builders, hopper cars, many railroads Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Jay Williams Collection, Wallace Johnson, Balcony Falls, John Rehor, Maintenance Cyclopedia, Railway Engineering, Gene Huddleston, Water Pit New!
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- Cleveland (OH) (Black America) by Regennia N. Williams Ph. D. on page 30
- Virginian Railway by H. Reid on page 17
- West Virginia (The States and the Nation series) by J.A. Williams on page 26
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