Domestic coal onesy-twosy handling question

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     Once, nearly every town in the USA and Canada had a dealer or two 
receiving carloads of coal. Can any of you explain how the coal was 
handled mine to retailer? Were certain mines oriented to this trade? 
Were they selling direct to coal yards or did brokers take multi-car 
lots and re-sell in regional areas? (Did N&W coal make it to places like 
Newfoundland and deliver on narrow gauge trucks?) Has this been covered 
in one of the magazine issues?

     WJPowers