Coal Loading - nw1365.jpg

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Tim;
 
I have a copy of the N&W Coal & Coke Mines, printed in 1965. Panther Coal is not listed in either the Thacker or Upper Buchannan Districts. The NWHS has a pair of coal maps from 1953 & 1957. Those maps have a mine ID # and an approximate location of the mine. You may want to obtain a copy of the 1953 map, since the photo in question should be on that map and not necessarily the later map.
 
Happy hunting!

Regards,
Russ Goodwin
Buford, GA
 
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Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 19:49:50 +0000
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Danial
Thanks so much for your reply, You guys are better than Wikipedia!  I now know more about “belt
 conveyor tripper cars” then I could have ever hoped for  J
 
One thing I am still having trouble with is the photo is said to have been taken at the “Panther Coal Company, Grundy, Virginia” but I can’t find any historical
 information about a “Panther Coal Company” in Virginia.  I have look at all the trackage around Grundy using Google Earth and can’t see anything that could have been a tripper car conveyor.  Anyone have an thoughts where else I could look?
 
Thank you
Tim
 


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It is a belt conveyor with a tripper car. The tripper car rides on a pair of rails either side of the conveyor. The belt is looped up onto the car and discharged
 through a side chute. They are fairly common in material handling situations where you need to discharge at multiple points along the length of the conveyor. Do an internet search for “belt conveyor tripper car” and you can find a lot of information about
 them.
 
Danial Fisher
 
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While looking through old N&W photographs I ran across the attached photo.  Does anyone have any information on the coal loading equipment pictured?  This would make a unique modeling
 subject but I can’t find anything about it.
Thanks for your help.
 
Tim





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  See image / data at Virginia Tech imagebase:

    http://imagebase.lib.vt.edu/view_record.php?URN=nw1365

  For larger image:

    http://spec.lib.vt.edu/imagebase/norfolksouthern/full/nw1365.jpg




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