. Philadelphia and its environs, and the railroad scenery of Pennsylvania . THE RAILROAD SCENERY OF THE OUTCROP OF A COAL VEIN. regard to architectural effect. The coal is hauled up the inclined plane on the left to the top of the building, whence it descends through a series of rollers and screens, which break and assort it, and past a company of boys, who pick out the slate and other impurities, and finally falls into a series of bins, not shown, where it is stored until drawn off into cars and sent to market. A coal breaker will pre-pare from three hundred to one thousand ton
. Philadelphia and its environs, and the railroad scenery of Pennsylvania . THE RAILROAD SCENERY OF THE OUTCROP OF A COAL VEIN. regard to architectural effect. The coal is hauled up the inclined plane on the left to the top of the building, whence it descends through a series of rollers and screens, which break and assort it, and past a company of boys, who pick out the slate and other impurities, and finally falls into a series of bins, not shown, where it is stored until drawn off into cars and sent to market. A coal breaker will pre-pare from three hundred to one thousand tons of coal a day, the quantity depending on its size and the amount furnished by the mine to which it is attached. Having seen all these objects of interest, the trav-eler can either take stage for Tamaqua, six miles distant, or can take the next train on the Switchback and go flying down the return track to Mauch Chunk, a run of nine miles, which is usually made in about twenty minutes. Two miles above Mauch Chunk, from which place it is reached by train on the Lehigh Valley Railroad, is Glen Onoko, formerly
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