Jon:
I am from southern Illinois and worked in and around the coal mines since
I was 19. In 1955 I would been about 8 years old. We burned coal, if you
went to the mine to get it you would back a truck under a shut or a conveyor
to get loaded. At Sparta, IL there was a coal yard and depending on the
size of coal it was either loaded with tractor with a bucket on it, or if
was in a hopper car they had a conveyor built under the tracks to unload the
car which had to be moved whenever part of the car was empty.
This brings back many memories and now that I think about it I believe
this is where the my grand mother must have gotten the green coal. This
coal yard operator would buy the coal where he could get it the cheapest and
I know he did by Old Ben coal from time to time.
I have never seen coal in a bag. It was always sold by the ton when you
went to the mine or coal yard to get it. Now my grand mother always said she
bought so many bushels, I have no idea how much a bushel of coal is. This
was from a coal peddler he may have had a bushel basket. I was very young
then.
The company that I worked for sold their coal under Burning Star Coal
name. Not all coal is the same except that it is black and dirty. The
quality very from mine to mine.
Myron Dudenbostel
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Bratt" <jkbratt@w...>
To: <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 11:18 PM
Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] Green Marked Coal
> Was this "Green marked coal" sold as home heating fuel and in what region
of the country? Would there be competing coal brands in the same area as
gasoline is today? Or was it more like LP fuel is today where the product
and brand are the same? Is this a type of coal which would be delivered in
bags in boxcars or in bulk in hoppers? Thanks for the interesting info on
this subject, it will make the delivery of coal on my 1955 era layout more
accurate.
> Jon Bratt
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: John D. Mitchell, Jr.
> To: list BRHS
> Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 9:42 PM
> Subject: [BRHSlist] Green Marked Coal
>
>
> I have a couple of comments about Green marked Coal.
> The roots of the color, that Old Ben used, is the fact
> that the Buchanan family, which had the controlling
> interest in the company, was Irish. In the East, the
> Berwind-White Coal Co. used white paint to mark their
> coal and the Blue Diamond Coal Co. used blue paint.
> The "Green Marked Coal" marketing campaign was a
> company legend, at Old Ben.
> John D. Mitchell, Jr.
>
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