781 Comments for Old Saint Nicholas Coal Breaker

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Chooo hoooo - new pictures! Thank you! Promising!
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Yes LAMPS! Am really interested in lamps - and they appear. You are great. Am so happy now. Fine gallery!
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Thank you! Thoroughly enjoy this. May you always be well and safe.
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Before computers is so cool. It always touches my heart to think of all reports filled out by hand and with pencil or ink.
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Yes, it is amazing. Still!
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WHO BUILT THIS????? It is fantastic!
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Yes! Thank you. It is hard to understand the scale at times. Lovely gallery; rust rust all hues shades and tints.
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Ohhhh for me heartbreaking; shoes for working, and left behind.....the pictures you take..............may you always be well....................and thank you!
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The one on the left looks taller like a little extra on top.
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It's been a while since this photo (7 years... wow) - I'd guess it was around four feet in diameter.
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Looks like "LDA". Can't see the letters before. I looked through some vintage saws and I believe this is a Delta Unisaw circa 1955. They were sold in Pennsylvania and used mostly for wood.
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In the late 1950s, NASA recruited West Virginia coal mine engineers to design and build the early gantries that launched men into space. That's why the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo launch pads looked a lot like coal breakers.
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Incredible set, Motts. Brought back a lot of memories.
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Love the contrast in colours in this one! It amazes me every time I visit this web site how humans are just so wasteful! Such a shame with so many homeless... it's all about money...... .
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I grew up in southern West Virginia in the 1960s and remember abandoned coal breakers dotting the landscape. They were called coal tipples there but looked very similar to this. In the late 70s I worked in one of these as a slate picker. I stood next to the moving conveyer belt and pulled out anything was wasn't coal. Nasty job.