Menards continues to add to their line of industrial structures. A little more than a year ago, they introduced Sooty’s Coal ...

The women in the photo are “boney pickers” on the job in 1943 at the Reliance Tipple. Tipples were large structures used to sort and load coal. Coal was transported from the mines to the ...

most of the operators of the rail mines (mines which deliver coal directly to a railroad loading station or tipple) sub-leased their coal rights to smaller operators, often union miners.

Pennsylvania’s inventory of abandoned coal mines is larger than that of any ... a 2- to 3-foot opening in the backyard of a home on Tipple Row Road in Hempfield’s Luxor neighborhood.