Towanda Coal Company locomotive...

Miner Dave · **Posted:** Sun Mar 24, 2013 10:36 am

So, it was actually used underground?!

Also, my email to you should be arriving shortly.

narrowmilitaryrail · **Posted:** Sun Mar 24, 2013 10:45 am

Here is a another photograph I own of CN: 24 built by Smith & Porter in 1868 for Wood & Morrell Co. Johnstown, PA. It is likely this locomotive was used by Cabria Iron in their Rolling Mill Mine.

M. Stonbraker

narrowmilitaryrail · **Posted:** Sun Mar 24, 2013 10:50 am

Porter & Bell 1871 Advertisements showing Towanda Coal Co. "H.D.V. Pratt" & CN 125 Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company #11.

Digger · **Posted:** Mon Apr 01, 2013 9:48 pm

nice loco pics

Digger · **Posted:** Fri Apr 05, 2013 4:23 pm

I not surprised that they would be used underground at Barclay; I guess they were used to having fire in the mines from the ventalation furnaces.
nice pictures of early locos.

Digger · **Posted:** Sun Apr 07, 2013 8:30 pm

The other locomotive was called Erastus Corning, Legend has it that was left in the mine, Stripmine operations stopped a few hundred feet short of the suspected site. So it will remain a mystery.

Miner Dave · **Posted:** Sun Apr 07, 2013 9:05 pm

UGM Team- I have your next assignment!

UGMiner Banks · **Posted:** Mon Apr 08, 2013 8:48 pm

under the rules of smizzoism, we dont take assignments.

Miner Dave · **Posted:** Mon Apr 08, 2013 8:50 pm

Please do some *puts on glasses* digging.

YEEEEAAAAAHHHH!!!!!!

Chris · **Posted:** Mon Apr 08, 2013 10:20 pm

Hmmm banksey, where did we stick those rules of smizoism again? I'm going to have to find that as I believe it was good ground rules. But if I must go from memory I think it was article 1b section 3 of page 4 that states we don't take on assignments from people who's names start with "miner" that aren't actually mining anything. Correct me if I'm wrong but I think that was the ruling set forth previously within "underground anthracite" :wink:

Miner Dave · **Posted:** Mon Apr 08, 2013 11:20 pm

oh, I mine. It is just sand. (not in the sandbox, for real. I have to help my grandfather with a sandpit every now and then when he is making some stuff.) That counts, right?

narrowmilitaryrail · **Posted:** Tue Apr 09, 2013 4:46 pm

Hey Digger,

"Erastus Corning"... That is very interesting information. Do you know anything else about the locomotive. I have information that it was twice as heavy as the "H.D.V. Pratt" weighing in at 10 tons, but I don't have any more information.

Regards,
Mark

Doug · **Posted:** Tue Apr 09, 2013 7:59 pm

Dave,

You should be warned, Banks is a lot like the Quote from C.S. Lewis in Chronicles of Narnia.

"Is He safe?
" Oh no my dear! He isn't Safe, But he is good."

Miner Dave · **Posted:** Tue Apr 09, 2013 8:45 pm

Got it! (I have all the books in hardcover, as they were my mother's copies.)

Chris · **Posted:** Tue Apr 09, 2013 9:06 pm

Miner Dave wrote:

oh, I mine. It is just sand. (not in the sandbox, for real. I have to help my grandfather with a sandpit every now and then when he is making some stuff.) That counts, right?

Is this the same grandfather with the sopwith camel? :roll:

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