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Coal dealers in upstate Pennsylvania 9 years 2 months ago #4120

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The Shelly and Fenstermacher coal business structure in Perkasie was destroyed in a huge fire in the business district on June 26, 1988. They did rebuild a “hardware” style building down the street after the fire.
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Coal dealers in upstate Pennsylvania 9 years 2 months ago #4121

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Elverson Supply had a coal trestle in place in the early 1970's, but I think their last hopper of coal (Reading Anthracite)was in the late 1960's.
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Coal dealers in upstate Pennsylvania 9 years 2 months ago #4124

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Browns on Lancaster ave was still getting R&N hoppers 10 to 15 years ago. I got a crappy pic of one, which could well have been the last ever rail delivery of coal in the city of Reading. I really hope I can find that. I stopped over there a few years ago and they told me how they could get 2
Or 3 truckloads cheaper than 1 hopper, and also the dangers of unloading a 100 tons of coal up on that old trestle.
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