Dumping Whole Cars of Coal into a Hopper to be Poured into Vessel's Hold, Conneaut, Ohio
Description
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Stereographs
- Description
- A stereoview of unloading coal on the docks at Conneaut, OH.
- Inscriptions
- "128"
"6706 Dumping Whole Cars of Coal into a Hopper to be Poured into Vessel's Hold, Conneaut, Ohio"
"Keystone View Company"
"Manufacturers Publishers. Copyrighted Made in U.S.A."
"Meadville, Pa., New York, N.Y., Chicago, Ill., London, England"
Reverse:
"128 - (6706)
Dumping Whole Cars of Coal into a Hopper to be Poured into Vessel's Hold, Conneaut, Ohio
This picture shows you how coal is quickly and easily transferred from the railroad cars to the ship's hold. The car which you see on the dock is held by great clamps to the platform. Then the platform, with the car fastened to it, is raised and tipped so that all the coal pours out into a hopper. Other machinery then moves the coal from the hopper to the ship's hold.
The dock in the view is at Conneaut, Ohio. Conneaut is one of the ports along the southern shore of Lake Erie, which has become an exchange place for coal and iron. Our greatest iron ore deposit lies at the western end of Lake Superior. In that district, however, there are no coal fields, and coal must be had to heat the iron ore, and to furnish carbon to mix with it, so that the iron can be made into steel. One of two things must be done. Either the coal must be taken to the iron fields, or the iron must be brought to the coal fields. At first, the iron was taken to the coal fields, and empty boats returned for more ore. Now steel refineries have been built in the Superior district similar to those near the coal fields in the east, so that today the shipping is carried on both ways. The vessels that carry iron east, carry back coal to be used in the Superior district. The coal being loaded at Conneaut will be taken to Duluth or Superior not far from the iron ore area.
Buffalo, Cleveland, Toledo, Ashtabula and Lorain are other ports which have become exchange places for coal and iron. Locate these ports.
Copyright by the Keystone View Company." - Publisher
- Keystone View Company
- Place of Publication
- Meadville, PA
- Date of Original
- c1920
- Dimensions
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Width: 17.7 cm
Height: 8.7 cm
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- 655
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Ohio, United States
Latitude: 41.9691269786775 Longitude: -80.5468654632568
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- Copyright Statement
- Public domain: Copyright has expired according to the applicable Canadian or American laws. No restrictions on use.
- Contact
- Maritime History of the Great LakesEmail:walter@maritimehistoryofthegreatlakes.ca
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