New Pennsylvania $5,000,000 Electrically Operated Coal Loader #3

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Stock #:261926
Type: Postcard
Era: Linen
City: Sandusky
State: Ohio (OH)
County: Erie
Publisher: E.B. Ackley
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)

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This loader can handle 60 90-ton cars per hour or a car per minute. Pennsylvania Coal Docks, Sandusky, Ohio. This new #3 electrically operated coal loader is located on the north end of a new pier extending 4,500 feet into Sundusky Bay. Completed and put in operation in August 1939. Coal dumpers on docks #1 and #2 which have been in operation for a number of years are steam operated. Sandusky is second on the Great Lakes in volume of coal shipped. 39,000,000 tons of coal shipped on an average per season from this port

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