Our Trains — Reading Blue Mountain & Northern

The Reading Company T-1 class 2102 was built in the Reading's own locomotive shop in 1945. With drivers of 70" diameter, it weighs 404 tons, and its tender holds up to 26 tons of coal, and up to 19,000 gallons of water. After the Reading Steam era was over, the Reading Company used the 2102 for the Reading Rambles on several different ...

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Reading & Northern Railroad: Map, Roster, Excursions

Reading & Northern Railroad. The Reading & Northern Railroad, officially known as the Reading, Blue Mountain & Northern Railroad (or RBM&N), is an eastern Pennsylvania Class II regional railroad which operates over 300 miles of predominantly ex-Reading Railroad trackage (although the company also operates lines owned by other fallen flags).

Port Reading's McMyler Coal Dumper | AbandonedNYC

But the Port Reading site is notable for being the last one standing in the New York area. It was constructed in 1917, making it 99 years old at the time of this post. A 1957 ad for Pier 18 in Jersey City, which boasted two "Big Mac" McMyler Dumpers. In a vast regional network of coal mines, breakers, railroads, and manufacturing hubs ...

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The Reading Model Railroad

The main business is moving raw coal to Locust Summit Central Breaker for processing and then shipping the processed coal to other destinations. There are also through and local freights. The grades in and out of Gordon require additional helper engines. This is achieved with the last of Reading's big steam (T-1s).

Reading & Northern - Railfan Guide

Reading Division The Reading Division offers photographers and fans an interesting step back into time. Not only is Port Clinton "taken" back in time, most of the villages and towns that the R&N traverses field a historic step back. From old structures and stations to coal breakers and bridges this is old time anthracite railroading.

Steam Locomotive Information

Lehigh Valley Coal Co. No. 123 0-4-0T : Ashland, PA: Location: Pioneer Tunnel: Status: Operational: Album: Video: Notes: Links:

Breaking the Abandoned St. Nicholas Coal Breaker in ...

St. Nicholas Breaker. The St. Nicholas Coal Breaker, formerly located in Mahanoy City, PA, was once the largest coal breaker in the world, and was the last of its kind in the state. According to an article in the Morning Call, "Invented in the 1840s, breakers transformed large, hard-to-ignite chunks of raw anthracite into a variety of smaller ...

Mahanoy Area Historical Society

St. Nicholas' Breaker . John Brennan's Grave . Coal, Wind and Nuclear . Anthracite Mining Part 1 . Anthracite Mining Part 2 . Anthracite Mining Part 3 . Reading & Northern Coal Train . 1916 Movie Memories Trailer . 1930's Smoke Shop Picnics . Centennial Celebration 1963 . Quasquicentennial Parade 1988 . Anthricite Mining 1920s . Buck Run ...

Google maps with coal breaker | Coal Prices & Quality ...

Hot Air Coal Stoker Stove: Reading Juniata Post by mattcoalburner » Tue. Oct. 16, 2012 3:22 am Well in Tamaqua area alone I see gale mining missing, Mazaika missing, I would have to really go over it with a fine tooth comb, but some of the best coal in our area comes from the smallest breakers, and they are the ones that will be missing here.

Home - Blaschak Anthracite - Blaschak Coal Corporation

The Anthracite Advantage. Anthracite is one of nature's cleanest-burning solid fossil fuels and carbon sources. A specialty mineral, anthracite is cleaner and harder than other forms of coal and offers the highest heat value of all coals. Since its discovery in Eastern Pennsylvania in 1769, anthracite has been meeting the needs of industrial ...

Reading Blue Mountain & Northern Railroad

Carbon sells railroad to Reading and Northern for $4.7 million. about 5 months ago. Reading & Northern Railroad Hires Jim Raffa For Marketing Role. about 6 months ago. Reading & Northern Announces Changes in Marketing & Sales Leadership. about 7 months ago.

Where Are the Breakers Today??? | Anthracite Coal History ...

gary if you south into southern luzerne or schuylkill counties you'll see quite a few breakers of all different sizes and configurations. one of the biggest is reading anthracites saint nick breaker on rt 54 between mahanoy city and shendo. right around the corner is an operating breaker with a rail siding run by a family operation.

Directions to Girard Breaker in Girardville, PA | Reading ...

The Girard Breaker is location for Bulk Coal pick-ups. From Route 81 North to Route 61 North (Exit 124b) to Route 924 North to 54 West; plant is 4 miles on the left. From Route 81 South to 54 West (Exit 130b); plant is 4 miles west of Shenandoah on left. From Route 61 South go to Route 54 East; plant is 1 mile east of Girardville on the right.

Pennsylvania's last massive coal breaker comes down ...

The old breaker is between Mahanoy City and Shenandoah in Schuylkill County, the southern part of a region that holds nearly all of the nation's anthracite, a pure grade of coal …

Reading Blue Mountain and Northern Railroad - Wikipedia

Reading and Northern (RBMN) hopper cars loaded with anthracite in the trainyard of Blaschak Coal Company, Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania. Owned and operated by the RBMN, it is a remnant of a combined yard that contained 20 miles (32 km) of trackage when the nearby Old St. Nicholas coal breaker —the world's largest—was in operation.

Collieries and Coal Breakers - Up the Woods

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.

Bagged - Penn Keystone Coal Co

Coal is clean, high quality Anthracite both surface and deep mined and bagged with 25+ years of plant experience. We will deliver or you may arrange pickup. Our bagging plant is in eastern Pennsylvania a few miles off of Interstate 81 in the heart of the Anthracite fields. Please call or email for pricing and availability. sales@penncoal.

Anthracite Coal Region – of Northeastern Pennsylvania

Both of my grandfathers were breaker boys and coal miners. My dziadzi's stories and the life I experienced in the Anthracite Coal Region of Northeastern Pennsylvania have influenced the directions my life has taken.It is the contention of this project that the stories of breaker boys and the lives of coal miners' families need to be told and retold often.

Old Saint Nicholas Coal Breaker: an Abandoned Coal Breaker ...

Old Saint Nicholas Coal Breaker History. The Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company's old Saint Nicholas breaker was constructed in Gilberton PA, just outside of Mahanoy City. Clearing of the land began in 1930, then construction on the breaker started in 1931 with the plant opening on September 16, 1932.

Coal Region Notebook: Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, USA

Named after the Mount Carmel Inn which was itself named for Mount Carmel in Israel. The inn was opened in 1812 by Richard Yarnall and was strategically located on the Centre Turnpike (also known as the Reading-Sunbury Road or Old Reading Road) halfway between Pottsville and Danville. During the latter part of 1854 the Philadelphia and Sunbury Railroad was completed from Shamokin to Mt. …

"O" Scale 3pc. Reading & Northern Coal Cars | Live and ...

Please contact Lilly's at 704 821 9951 for specific instructions on packing or method of shipping. Our shipper will be adding a signature confirmation to all items shipped, unless otherwise stated from buyer. A $5.00 fee will be added to the packing and shipping cost for a transport fee to local shipper.

Outdoor Survival Training & Classes in PA | Coalcracker ...

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Emmaus Coal Company | Anthracite Coal | Emmaus PA

All of our bulk coal ships directly from the breakers of Schuylkill County to you, which means cleaner, better sized, and fines-free coal. With quality brands like Blaschak, Reading, Lehigh, and DiRenzo, heating with anthracite has never been so clean and convenient. Coal direct from the breaker means:

GF Photos Reading and Northern . Duryea PA. Heading into ...

Feb 26, 2014 - GF Photos Reading and Northern . Duryea PA. Heading into Coxton yard in Pittston PA

Directory — Reading Blue Mountain & Northern Railroad

Senior VP - Coal Marketing William Clark. VP - Coal Marketing & Sales Karl Laubenstine. VP - Business Management James Cerulli. VP - Distribution Services Daren P. Geschwindt. VP- Market Development Jim Raffa. Operations Executive VP Operations Tyler A. Glass. VP - Motive Power Dustin Berndt. VP - Transportation & Safety Eric Peters. VP ...

Breaker Breaker (Anthracite Breaker) - Pictures Repaired ...

Breaker Breaker (Anthracite Breaker) - Pictures Repaired. Sat, 14:34 — nbrodar. Scenery - Structures. In addition to my rolling stock projects, I'm working on kitbashing an anthracite breaker from some Walthers New River Mining kits. Like many later breakers, mine will be loads in (mine run coal) and loads out (sized, processed coal).