Re: Coal for heat.

Posted by Billy NY on January 30, 2014 at 07:41:45 from (72.226.79.200):

In Reply to: Coal for heat. posted by oldtanker on January 30, 2014 at 07:14:37:

Height of the industrial revolution, railroads here thrived on transporting coal, or seems to be evident given historical information. I looked back at a 1952 aerial photo of this farm, and it was barren, no trees, one area that is 11 acres of hardwood now, was still young, maybe viable to produce some wood for heat then but the land was clear, even the most formidable, now seemingly useless land on side hills above swamp was cleared, probably pasture so better land was used for crops. When I was a kid, the hedgerows provided some, but there was just not much wood available, now with it all overgrown, I could heat with wood until I'm gone, asking price is owning a tractor to tow it in and necessary equipment to process it, which is not all that much, I probably have 2k invested with everything + labor until you can't perform the work anymore, hate to think about that. The old victorian house that was here, a very large home with 10' high ceilings, and no insulation, one fire place, no amount of wood would have heated it, it had a coal fired boiler converted to fuel oil at some point, likely in the 50's. When '73 hit and that embargo was going strong, big time game changer. I can remember living in this house, bitter cold, snow blowing and drifting when winter was really winter, fire place was nice, but the only warm cozy place was near that boiler. The coal bin was huge, they loaded in in through a chute and someone had to keep that boiler going all winter.

You can't see it as much in the photos, lots of us like to relegate the past, being better times, but the you look at some color photos, lots of pollution, the trains in this area were no different, even when they switched over to diesel, all kinds of pollution on the buildings, when they took down what was a beautiful grand central station here, the roof over the platform was loaded with soot from the coal days, I posted a you tube video of this some time back, showing the demo. Rivers and air were highly polluted here, different times with different means and methods, none of which were as clean or efficient. That part can't be denied, the rest y'all can debate, I'll kindly stay out of that LOL !

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