Multi Shots from the trail.

[Adam490]

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@Red500
@gparks
@Bad_bowtie
@JayPo
@Lisa86
@Ohio4x4
Thanks to @JenElio for getting the ride together even though he hurt himself just so he didn't have to make that 14 hour drive.

You gay guys are pretty good at taking pictures!

 

[gullyjumper]

Very nice pictures.

 

[Prntckt]

Great pictures!

 

[JayPo]

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@Red500
@gparks
@Bad_bowtie
@JayPo
@Lisa86
@Ohio4x4
Thanks to @JenElio for getting the ride together even though he hurt himself just so he didn't have to make that 14 hour drive.

Great pics BBB! It was a fun snow ride even though there was minimal snow, but there was snow.

 

[1border4manu]

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@Red500
@gparks
@Bad_bowtie
@JayPo
@Lisa86
@Ohio4x4
Thanks to @JenElio for getting the ride together even though he hurt himself just so he didn't have to make that 14 hour drive.

Thanks for sharing. We are hoping for some snow when we are up there in a couple weeks.

 

[TripleB]

Thanks for sharing. We are hoping for some snow when we are up there in a couple weeks.

I dont have any plans the next 3 weekends yet. I usually try to ride at least one day every weekend if you wanna go.

 

[Adam490]

I dont have any plans the next 3 weekends yet. I usually try to ride at least one guy every weekend if you wanna go.

Okay then, at least you are up front about it!

 

[TripleB]

JayPo, it's okay, it's superatv

youtube.com

@JayPo

 

[1border4manu]

I dont have any plans the next 3 weekends yet. I usually try to ride at least one day every weekend if you wanna go.

I will stay in touch.

 

[HBarlow]

@TripleB:

What is or was the purpose of the two massive wire reels in photo #2?

 

[TripleB]

@TripleB:

What is or was the purpose of the two massive wire reels in photo #2?

That's how the old coal mines got the coal off the mountain. They would bring the coal out of the mines in small cars to a tipple that would have been over top of those cable lines. Dump into a larger car. Once the larger car was full they would send it down the mountain to another tipple, where it would be loaded on a train. As a full car was going down a empty car would be coming up. I know where several of these old inclines are but this is the only one that still has the drums left.

 

[TripleB]

That's how the old coal mines got the coal off the mountain. They would bring the coal out of the mines in small cars to a tipple that would have been over top of those cable lines. Dump into a larger car. Once the larger car was full they would send it down the mountain to another tipple, where it would be loaded on a train. As a full car was going down a empty car would be coming up. I know where several of these old inclines are but this is the only one that still has the drums left.

Here is a picture of that actual incline from the Roaches Creek/Dean mines. This is the bottom end near the railroad. It's still a long ways up to where the drums are at.

And another from years later after the mines was shut down.

 

[TripleB]

Another one from the bottom. That's the tipple where they load the coal onto the trains. If you look just above the tipple, you can see the incline tracks coming down the mountain from the wheel house.

 

[TripleB]

This is the what they brought the coal out of the mines with and over to the cable line. All these pictures are actual photos from Roaches Creek/Dean Mine.

 

[HBarlow]

Thanks for the photos and explanation.

Please correct me if I'm wrong - the wheel house cable was attached to a loaded coal car to control descent down the slope to a railroad car.

 

[GovtMule]

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This is the what they brought the coal out of the mines with and over to the cable line. All these pictures are actual photos from Roaches Creek/Dean Mine.

Had to google that and get the coordinates.Very cool.

 

[TripleB]

Thanks for the photos and explanation.

Please correct me if I'm wrong - the wheel house cable was attached to a loaded coal car to control descent down the slope to a railroad car.

Yes and to pull a empty car back up the mountain.

 

[HBarlow]

Got it, thanks.

Were Tennessee coal mines verticall and deep underground?

As best I can determine, West Virginia mines were usually horizontal, deep into a hillside but generally not deep vertically.

There's an Exhibition Coal Mine nearby in Beckley open to the public for a modest ticket fee as a tourist adventure. I've visited it several times when we had guests from out of state. I found it interesting and somewhat educational.

https://beckley.org/coal-mine/

 

[TripleB]

Had to google that and get the coordinates.Very cool.

Forgotten Times: The state-of-the-art mining operation at Roach Creek - Independent Herald

Take a trip up Roach Creek in eastern Scott County today, and you won't find much to indicate that a thriving coal operation and modern company town were once present here. There are signs of the two-mile coal railroad that once extended up the valley from Montgomery Junction along the Tennessee...

www.indherald.com

Pretty decent article about this mines.

 

[HBarlow]

I'm a transplanted Texan, a newcomer to WV. I find the coal mines and miners interesting and sad. Almost all the adult males I've met or spoken with here in southern WV have a linkage to the mines. Either they worked in the mins themselves or a brother, uncle, cousin, or their father and grandfather earned their living in the mines.

The history of WV is filled with numerous coal mine explosions and miners who died in the mines. Almost all the men in many remote rural areas worked in the mines so when a coal mine explosion occurred, most of the male population of the area were killed in one single tragic event.