RE: (erielack) Erie and Wyoming Valley

[Bill Gallagher <wa3ra_@_yahoo.com>]

Both of the lines in the first question were coal co.
owned.

A wagon loader was similar to a coaling dock...hoppers
would be spotted on top, and there were chutes below
that were used to load wagons and later, trucks with
retail coal.

Grassy Island was the name of a breaker located in
Blakely. It had several main shafts. That area of
Blakely boro is still known as Grassy Island.

Are you sure the trackage right up north are NYSW?
NYOW (Ontario and Western) would make more sense.

Bill G.





- --- "Tupaczewski, Paul R (Paul)" <paultup_@_lucent.com>
wrote:
> Neophyte guesses coming up... :)
> 
> 
> > 2.    Voipe Coal Mining Company had a wagon loader
> near 
> > Moosic. What is a 
> > wagon loader?
> 
> Would this be one of the coal conveyors that would
> load up the coal trucks?
> 
>  
> > 9.    The Storrs Branch of the DLW served the
> Storrs Colliery and the 
> > Scranton Anthracite Birquette Company. What is a
> anthracite 
> > birquette and 
> > what was it used for.
> 
> Could this be "briquettes"? As in the charcoal you
> use in a barbeque?
> 
> 	- Paul
> 
> 


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