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| Keywords: An old coaling tower that once served Chesapeake & Ohio steam locomotives moving through Bluefield, West Virginia LCCN2015634388.tif 1 photograph digital tiff file color Notes Purchase; Carol M Highsmith Photography Inc ; 2015; DLC/PP-2015 055 ; Credit line West Virginia Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division ; Forms part of West Virginia Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive ; Title date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer ; A coaling tower or coal stage is a facility used to load coal into railway steam trains The towers used gravity to slide coal down a chute into the waiting trains' coal storage area in tender cars immediately behind the locomotives The bulk coal was often loaded INTO the tower from wagons positioned on hillsides or ramps above them With railroads' switch from steam to diesel locomotives the need for coaling towers ended but many such as the one in Hinton remain in place due to the high cost of demolition of these massive structures 2015 Creator Carol M Highsmith Library of Congress Catalog http //lccn loc gov/2015634388 Image download https //cdn loc gov/master/pnp/highsm/34300/34372a tif Original url http //hdl loc gov/loc pnp/highsm 34372 No known restrictions on publication LOC-image highsm 34372 PD-Highsmith Images uploaded by Fæ West Virginia Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division West Virginia Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive Photographs by Carol M Highsmith | ||||