The legacy of coal is not beautiful nor clean. Coal destroys lives. It's time to move on from an industry that exploits ...

most of the operators of the rail mines (mines which deliver coal directly to a railroad loading station or tipple) sub-leased their coal rights to smaller operators, often union miners.

A little more than a year ago, they introduced Sooty's Coal Tipple, and have now added an O gauge Sooty's Mine Shaft to the ...

Justin Vellucci Sunday, Dec. 8, 2024 5:55 a.m. | Sunday, Dec. 8, 2024 5:55 a.m. Coal ... a mine shaft after a man fell 25 feet through a 2- to 3-foot opening in the backyard of a home on Tipple ...

The women in the photo are “boney pickers” on the job in 1943 at the Reliance Tipple. Tipples were large structures used to sort and load coal. Coal was transported from the mines to the ...

"Coal Tipple" is a black-and-white photograph that exemplifies the ... referring to disappearing architectural relics such as coal mines, steel mills, water towers, grain silos, and gas tanks. “I ...

Anyone who has lived near a strip or mountaintop removal mine knows there is no such thing as clean coal. Anyone who has lived near a tipple for the sorting, washing and loading of coal on trains ...