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Twin Seam Mining Company

tsmc_state The Twin Seam Mining Company served various coal pits near Kellerman, Al, east of Birmingham. The company employed several hard-working Shay locomotives to haul loaded coal hoppers up a grade for mainline interchange. Coal trucks brought the coal to the railroad loading facility. Sometime in the early 1960s, a wooden trestle gave way underneath one of the locomotives and the rail operation and its rugged Shays were subsequently scrapped.

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Twin Seam Mining Company #5

  • builder:Lima Locomotive Works
  • arrangement:Class C 3-truck Shay
  • built:Dec 1923, Lima #3247
  • fuel:coal/water
  • notes:
  • blt as Winchester & Western RR #4
    returned to Lima Locomotive Works 1925
    sold as Meadow River Lumber #5, 1926
    to Twin Seam Mining Company, 1958
    scrapped at Fox, Al in 1963
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    Twin Seam Mining Company #8

  • builder:Lima Locomotive Works
  • arrangement:Class C 3-truck Shay
  • built:Nov 1922, Lima #3195
  • fuel:coal/water
  • notes:
  • blt for Scotch Lumber Company
    to Alabama & Tombigbee Railroad #8
    to Twin Seam Mining Company, 1949
    scrapped at Kellerman, Al in 1963
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    Twin Seam Mining Company #17

  • builder:Lima Locomotive Works
  • arrangement:Class C 3-truck Shay
  • built:Jan 1917, Lima #2863
  • fuel:coal/water
  • notes:
  • blt for Cherry River Boom & Lumber Co.
    to Twin Seam Mining Company, 1947
    scrapped at Kellerman, Al in 1963
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    This page was updated on 2019-06-03