subject: How To Transport Coal From The Mine? [print this page] In 1822, Abraham Potts built a new conveyance for hauling coal at his Black Valley Mine in Schuylkill County. The contraption attracted a lot of attention because anything that made it possible to bypass the terrible roads in the Schuylkill wilderness was guaranteed to arouse considerable interest.Eventually, news of Potts innovation reached Philadelphia and a group of Schuylkill Navigation officers came to the reguion on a canal boat to investigate. When they arrived, they saw thirteen loaded coal cars standing on wooden rails that extended from the head of the canal at Mill Creek to the mine a half a mile away.The affable Potts quickly offered a demonstration. He hitched up a single horse to the led car, ignoring some skeptical wisecracks from the group and had the animal, rather easily, pull the load over the rails. He then informed the men that within a decade they would see coal from the region travel to Philadelphia entirly by rail. As they stepped onto the boat for the return trip, the company officers promised to lock up Potts as a lunatic should he ever venture into the City of Brotherly Love.The first rail lines were actually part of the canal system. The rails were feeder systems for carring coal directly from the mines to the canals. Built in the 1820s and 1830s, they were simple extensions of the rails outside the mines. The railways were made of timber and secured on notched crossties bound with iron strapping spiked to the rails. Horses or mules pulled the cars. As more mines opened, lateral lines were built that picked up cars from the feeder lines of mines along the rout. The lateral roads, chartered by the state as public highways,charged tolls usually a cent and a half per ton per mile, for use of the track. They were built as cooperative ventures by groups of mine owners who shared in stocks and profits or by independent promoters who arranged with mine owners to have secure outlets to the canals.From that meger beginning, the advancment of the railway industry in America, for the main purpose of transporting coal, was so rapid that within thirty years the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad would become the largest industrail corporation in the word.As the professional manufacturer of complete sets of mining machinery, such as Cone crushers,Sand maker,Rotary dryer, Henan Hongxing is always doing the best in products and service.Mobile crushing station:http://www.crusher-machine.com/n27.html Dryer machine:http://www.hx-china.com/15.html
