Read a product review of the O gauge Menards Sooty’s Mine Shaft, an animated structure for your toy train layout.

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 ...

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.

Pennsylvania’s inventory of abandoned coal mines is larger than that of any ... a 2- to 3-foot opening in the backyard of a home on Tipple Row Road in Hempfield’s Luxor neighborhood.

"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 ...