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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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

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. ×

EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA ANTHRACITE COALFIELDS

What other coal areas call a tipple or preparation plant, the northeastern Pennsylvania Coal Region calls a breaker. Here is the Harry E. breaker, which was located in Swoyersville, Pa. and demolished in 1995. 1940 image, source forgotten The Cranberry patch town and breaker. 2010 image by Mashuga Coal company patch at William Penn, Pa.

St. Nicholas Central Breaker, Pennsylvania Route 54, Maple …

The builder of the breaker, the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company, was the largest and most productive of Pennsylvania's anthracite-mining companies. …

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 …

Sue Hand | Coal Breaker Communities Gallery

The Auchincloss Coal Breaker was built in 1895 by the Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Railroad. It was located on the opposite side of Prospect Street from the present LCCC. It was the first anthracite …

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. ...

Stanton Colliery – Underground Miners

It opened in 1870 with the sinking of a shaft on the land of John Stanton, by the Wilkes-Barre Coal and Iron Company. In 1880, the name was changed to the Stanton No 7 Colliery, operated by the Lehigh and Wilkes-Barre Coal Company. ... "The Breakers of the Northern Anthracite Coalfield of Pennsylvania," Richard G. Healey, Ph.D Northerfield ...

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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. Contact Reading Anthracite.

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 …

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 …

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 ...

"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 …

Railway Preservation News • View topic

The breaker is the large building at center bottom. If you go straight up to center top, you'll see the thawing shed. St. Nick was a central breaker, where mine run coal was brought in by the Reading RR for processing. The thawing sheds were tied into the powerhouse (also still standing) to use steam to loosen frozen coal.

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.

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.

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 …

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

Pennsylvania Northern Coal Field

Encyclopedic reference of Pennsylvania's Northern Anthracite Coal Field. Pennsylvania's Northern Anthracite Coal Field 1870 - 1970: Site updated on 03/08/2024. Database version 7.22.0 Related …

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 ...

Northern Anthracite Coal Field Miner's Memorial Park

The park will include walking trails through landscaped scenery, benches for relaxing, and educational kiosks with information on the history of the Breaker and the Anthracite Coal Region. The park will be located directly in front of the Huber Breaker site, at 101 South Main St. in Ashley, PA.

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.

CSXTHS

Looking west on the Reading & Northern at Tamaqua. R&N signals. Tamaqua PA. 6. R&N signal closeup. Tamaqua PA. 7. Former Reading restored watch box. ... Lehigh Anthracite Coal Co Greenwood Breaker. …

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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.

About the Reading Anthracite Company | Overview

The Reading Anthracite Company is a leading anthracite coal mining company and active supporter & innovator of alternative energy solutions. Skip to content. About Reading Anthracite; ... Directions to New St. Nicholas Breaker; Reading Anthracite Home; Reading Anthracite Sales & General Inquiries 1-800-654-7792 1-570-622-5150. About …