. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ournal of Motive Power, Rolling Stock and Appliances Vol XXXII 114 Liberty Street, New York, March, 1919 No. 3 Coal Handling Around New York and Elsewhere Our frontispiece and accompanying il-lustrations show that Xew York is beingfortified against any chance of a repeti-tion of the coal shortage that occurred ayear ago. To the most casual observerit looks as if the culm heaps that disfigurethe romantic vallevs of the AUeghanies ticn of 685,300,000 tons of coal was thelargest in the nations h
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ournal of Motive Power, Rolling Stock and Appliances Vol XXXII 114 Liberty Street, New York, March, 1919 No. 3 Coal Handling Around New York and Elsewhere Our frontispiece and accompanying il-lustrations show that Xew York is beingfortified against any chance of a repeti-tion of the coal shortage that occurred ayear ago. To the most casual observerit looks as if the culm heaps that disfigurethe romantic vallevs of the AUeghanies ticn of 685,300,000 tons of coal was thelargest in the nations history, and it isuniversally recognized that this was a tre-mendous factor in bringing the war to aclose sooner than was expected. It is alsogratifying to learn that in the matter offatal casualties from explosion of gas and nearly opposite Grants tomb, as showijin the frontispiece, a big storage coal brought from the mines by rail-road is not delivered at this yard at on,~ is first loaded into barges at, pointsseveral miles to the south and thenbrought in by water to Shady Side. Here. \ IKW <lK C).\l. liA.\i)\<; .\T SIDE, N. .1. were being moved to the vicinity of ourimperial city. This is not to be wonderedal, as the supply has increased while themild winter has curtailed the the fjovernment reports we learn■hat -American miners increased the pro-iction of coal . tons in 1918 IT that r f 1917. Last year the produc- coal dust there were 233 less than in power for tho mechanical appliancesused in coal handling in the vicinity of-New York are furnished by the New^ork r(lison Company. This concern fur-nishes electric current to the principalpart of Manhattan Island. It maintainsat Shady Side, N. J., on the Hudson River it is dug out by means of a big clam-shell bucket suspended from a trolleywhich runs in and out. The coal is eitherput in a coal pile by the clam-shell bucketor else is sent by a litlle cab
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