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Model Railroader’s Guide to Coal Railroading by Tony Koester Soft Cover
Model Railroaders Guide to Coal Railroading SC 2006 Model Railroader Books
By Tony Koester
Soft Cover
Copyright 2006
96 Pages
Build and run more-realistic coal operations!
The rail and coal industries practically grew up together, and they're still vitally important to each other. Mines from the Appalachians to the West yield more than a billion tons of coal each year, most of which travels by rail.
The Model Railroader's Guide to Coal Railroading provides a wealth of information for modelers who want to add coal operations to their layouts. This book examines where coalfields are located and how coal is mined. It explains the rail system that has evolved to serve the coal industry. And it's filled with pictures of coal businesses from generating plants and steel mills to the local coal dealership you can model on your layout.
This book includes information and tips about:
Underground and surface mines
Tipples, breakers, and loaders
Types of coal
Historic coal-hauling railroads
Railroad operations and equipment
Company towns
Introduction4
Chapter One: "Tide 470" by David P. Morgan6
How coal got to market on the
Chesapeake & Ohio in 1955
Chapter Two: Where's the coal?13
How coal was formed, and where major
seams are located in North America
Chapter Three: Company towns20
"Coal camps," or "mine patches,"
and company stores
Chapter Four: The central Appalachians30
An overview of the railroads that served
the bituminous coalfields in the East
Chapter Five: The anthracite region48
Railroads and breakers in the hard-coal
region of northeastern Pennsylvania
Chapter Six: Coalfields in the cornfields56
Black diamonds continue to be an
important Midwestern "crop"
Chapter Seven: Coal in the West64
The Powder River Basin has become
the major coal-producing region of the U.S.
Chapter Eight: Black-diamond destinations72
Customers range from small retail
coal yards to steel mills and power plants
Chapter Nine: Big power for heavy trains80
The small and the weak need not apply
when it comes time to haul coal
Chapter Ten: Modeling coal railroad operations90
Before unit trains, coal was mined
and marketed as many different commodities
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