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Barges waiting turns on the locks on the Ohio River. Coal barges are filled with 24,000 tons of coal.

1. Tows and Coal Barges Waiting Turns on the Locks on the Ohio River

IDNO:
001934
Title:
Tows and Coal Barges Waiting Turns on the Locks on the Ohio River
Description:
Barges waiting turns on the locks on the Ohio River. Coal barges are filled with 24,000 tons of coal.
A Tow of Coal for the Jones and Laughlin Aliquippa Works locking through a dam in the Ohio River. There are 6000 tons of coal in this one movement, or enough to fill 120 freight cars of 50 tons capacity each. The coal came down the Monongahela, which is canalized for a distance of about 70 miles above Pittsburgh and taps the richest bituminous coal district in the United States, where practically all the steel companies of the East have their coal mining operations and ship either by river or by rail.

2. Tow of Coal for the Jones and Laughlin Aliquippa Works Locking Through a Dam on the Ohio River

IDNO:
001939
Title:
Tow of Coal for the Jones and Laughlin Aliquippa Works Locking Through a Dam on the Ohio River
Description:
A Tow of Coal for the Jones and Laughlin Aliquippa Works locking through a dam in the Ohio River. There are 6000 tons of coal in this one movement, or enough to fill 120 freight cars of 50 tons capacity each. The coal came down the Monongahela, which is canalized for a distance of about 70 miles above Pittsburgh and taps the richest bituminous coal district in the United States, where practically all the steel companies of the East have their coal mining operations and ship either by river or by rail.