The anthracite coal strike, costly to all consumers of hard coal, is also expensive to the railroads engaged in loading anthracite. These roads are the Delaware & Hudson, Lehigh Valley, Lackawanna, ...

It’s well known that the history of the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad is intertwined with coal in the southern anthracite region. The Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Co. (P&RC&I) owned and ...

THE same date, April 1, for the first time in the history of our coal industry, calls this year for the settlement of wages in both anthracite and bituminous mines over the whole region east of the ...

After 50 years, the “Funeral Train” still haunts area railroad enthusiasts and anthracite mining historians. The train, consisting of a few aging cabooses and freight cars, pulled out of the Central ...

POTTSVILLE – When it went into operation in March 1931, the St. Nicholas breaker outside Mahanoy City was one of the largest processors of anthracite coal in the world. State-of-the-art technology, it ...

A company that owns 8 acres of old Marvine colliery land seeks from the state the release of $41,379 in reclamation bonds, ...

The enchanting islands of Hawaii became the 50th state Aug. 21 and another star was emblazoned on Old Glory. The seven stripes of red and six of white remain unchanged as they have for more than a ...

The U. S. anthracite (hard coal) industry is a $400,000,000 investment 99?% concentrated in Pennsylvania. It has been so long on the verge of ruin that last week there was no particular reason why ...