Birmingham Coal Company

Birmingham Coal Company Railroad
Locale Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
Track gauge 3 ft 2 in (965 mm)
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The Birmingham Coal Company was a coal mining company in the Pittsburgh Coalfield area.[1] It operated mines along Becks Run,[2] as well as other mines south of the Monongahela River, such as the Bausman Mine and the American Mine. It is named for Birmingham, Pennsylvania, a town which was later annexed to Pittsburgh. Part of the company was the Birmingham Coal Company Railroad, a 3 ft 2 in (965 mm) narrow gauge railroad that ran Along 21st street. Coal was transferred underground using a tailrope system from Spiketown to the mine entrance, and from there to the railroad on a gravity plane to the railroad.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Chance, Henry Martyn (1884). Report of Progress... pp. 175–179. Retrieved 2008-09-08.
  2. ↑ Geological Survey of Pennsylvania 1886. 1887. p. 176. Retrieved 2008-09-07.
  3. ↑ Furman, H.V.; A.E. Swain (June 11, 1881). "Underground Haulage in the Coal Mines of Pennsylvania". The Mining and Engineering Journal 31: 400. |chapter= ignored (help)


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