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Forum: Coal Mining Topic: Shoemaker mine rail hualage replaced |
| John |
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Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 5:53 pm
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| (just so the article doesn't disappear...) Shoemaker Mine Banks on Future Confidence Placed in Upgrades By JENNIFER COMPSTON-STROUGH City Editor POSTED: January 24, 2010 BENWOOD - After seven years and $206 million, Consol Energy Inc. has prepared ... |
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Forum: Coal Mining Topic: Shoemaker mine rail hualage replaced |
| 50tonloco |
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Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 3:48 pm
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| Here is a link about the shoemaker mine rail hualage being replaced by a conveyor belt, which acording to this article the last train ran on January 19th. http://www.theintelligencer.net/page/content.detail/id/533580.html Acording to ... |
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Forum: Coal Mining Topic: Coal mine automatic block signals |
| 50tonloco |
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Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 10:48 pm
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thanks, for the info, do you know what kind of block signals, are used at shoemaker, Uinion switch and signal
Also do you have photos? |
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Forum: Coal Mining Topic: Coal mine automatic block signals |
| rail haulage miners |
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Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 7:24 am
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Replies: 2
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| ... You take your cap light and move it left to right multiple times (just as one example) to allow them that you are there & stopped. For Shoemaker the block signals work off the trolley wire but the dispatcher & radio communication is the most critical. Hope that helps a little. Pete, ... |
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Forum: Coal Mining Topic: What bituminous mines still use rail hualage? |
| 50tonloco |
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Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2009 2:54 pm
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| What company made that mantrip shown coming out of the shoemaker mine in those photos? (not the jeffery locomotive with the roof bolter) but the mantrip. |
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Forum: Coal Mining Topic: train simulator route for an undergroud coal mine? |
| 50tonloco |
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Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2009 2:51 pm
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thanks for showing me that
I would learn how to do that so I could make a coal mine route
Shoemaker mabye? |
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Forum: Coal Mining Topic: What bituminous mines still use rail hualage? |
| rail haulage miners |
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Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 7:19 pm
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Replies: 32
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| Thats what makes Shoemaker the last of the last. The longwall machine is 1200 -1250ft long across the coal face. I have to check. Basically each underground mine train pulls out 900 ton of raw coal per load which is one pass of the ... |
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Forum: Coal Mining Topic: What bituminous mines still use rail hualage? |
| Deadwood59 |
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Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 6:31 pm
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| ... longwall. 1 used Jefferys motors and the other used both Jeffery and old rebuilt Westinghouse motors (locomovitives) BTW we had some guys go to Shoemaker when SOCCO closed. If you run into any of them tell them an old dude says hello :D |
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Forum: Coal Mining Topic: What bituminous mines still use rail hualage? |
| 50tonloco |
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Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2009 9:40 am
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Can you please email me the pictures of the shoemaker site.
And how do you get MSHA trained? |
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Forum: Coal Mining Topic: What bituminous mines still use rail hualage? |
| rail haulage miners |
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Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2009 9:05 pm
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| We are appointment only. Most of our group has been MSHA trained to be on the Shoemaker site. We have (2) G.E. 37 ton mine locomotives coming from a mine just south of Shoemaker. We are going to try to save one of the unique Jeffreys from Shoemaker. There are a ... |
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Forum: Coal Mining Topic: What bituminous mines still use rail hualage? |
| rail haulage miners |
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Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2009 8:07 pm
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| ... & that will son come to an end in approximatly 15 days or so. This is the only bituminous mine that hauls coal by rail out of the mine. Shoemaker Mine They operate 50 ton Jeffreys (2) per train (One lead unit & one trailing at the end of the train) 40 cars with 20 ton loads Cars ... |
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Forum: Coal Mining Topic: Train the Trainer / MSHA |
| rail haulage miners |
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Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 8:42 pm
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| I was actually at Shoemaker Mine today near Wheeling....getting very close for the belt haulage project to take over. |
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Forum: Coal Mining Topic: Coal Companies of the Wyoming Valley |
| chemistry1969 |
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Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 6:56 pm
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| Banks, "The Back Road" has a couple different names, its Main St. in Swoyersville, then Shoemaker Ave. in West Wyoming, then Slocum Ave. in West Pittston. I always knew it as the "back road". |
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Forum: Coal Mining Topic: Anthracite Roof Control |
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Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2008 5:28 pm
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| ... tons production in 2006 (2) longwall panels Bailey (W, Pa) 10.2 million tons production in 2006 Robinson Run (WV) McElroy (WV) Loveridge (WV) Shoemaker (WV) Mine#50 (WV) Emerald (W, Pa) Century (Ohio) Blacksville #2 (WV /Pa) Mine 60 (NEW) (Pa) Cumberland Resources (W, Pa) Federal #2 I Think ... |
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Forum: Coal Mining Topic: New mines lag as coal booms in western Pa. |
| miket145 |
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Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2008 7:39 pm
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| ... has a $2.5 billion backlog of machinery orders. It's at Cecil-based Consol Energy, which is upgrading the Bailey Mine in Greene County, and the Shoemaker Mine, which straddles the West Virginia border into Washington County, to boost production. Bailey produced about 10 million tons of coal ... |
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