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You can take a track ride with me as I give you a tour of our
track here at the Cumberland Mine Railroad. This will be a 4 part mini
series. Today we start out at the prep plant and travel to
mile post 4. In the 3 follow up videos you will see the entire
line from start to finish, 16.8 miles on this very unique short line railroad.
So many folks have asked me to see the entire track so hope you
enjoy these videos and get a better understanding of what all our
railroad here is about.
We haul exclusively coal from the mine and prep plant located at Kirby Pa.
to a river barge loading facility at Alicia Pa. on the Monongahela River.
Almost all of our coal is for domestic steam power plant generation.
We do sell some coal to a concrete plant that is taken by barge to LaBelle Pa.
where it is off loaded and put on CSX trains. We currently also sell
some coal to Hyundai located in Korea and S. America and
that coal is sent via CSX from LaBelle to Baltimore Md. for overseas shipment.
We have 3 locomotives, 2 of which are EMD SD 38-2. #1 was built in
1975 just for this mine, #22 was built in 1978 for Yankeetown Docks
and #3098 is an EMD SD 40-2 built in 1966 for Southern Pacific.
(built as an SD 40, converted to a dash 2 by Boise Locomotive Works
after the SP/UP merger upon which it was retired and sold to Boise).
First video in the series from MP 0 to MP 4 is here:
• Riding the Rails MP 0....
From MP 4 to MP 8
• Riding the Rails MP 4 ...
From MP 8 to MP 12.5
• Riding the Rails MP 8 ...
From MP 12.5 to MP 16.8 End of line
• Riding the Rails MP 12...
Made October 2021
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