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Elevation On Coal Chute and Sand Chute Track

Elevation On Coal Chute and Sand Chute Track

1900 – 1906

This design plan is for the coal loading trestle in the Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Railroad yard in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Coal trestles were ramps used to unload coal hoppers directly into the tender of locomotives, which increased the efficiency of operations.

Paper. L 43.6, W 97.4 cm
Steamtown National Historic Site, STEA 1998