Birmingham Coal Company

Birmingham Coal Company Railroad

Overview
Locale	Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
Technical
Track gauge	3 ft 2 in (965 mm)
Other
Website	Map https://web.archive.org/web/20110927045243/http://images.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/i/image/image-idx?view=entry%3Bcc%3Dhopkins%3Bentryid%3Dx-20090330-hopkins-0026

The Birmingham Coal Company was a coal mining company in the Pittsburgh Coalfield area. ^[1] It operated mines along Becks Run, ^[2] as well as other mines south of the Monongahela River, such as the Bausman Mine and the American Mine. It is named for Birmingham, Pennsylvania, a town which was later annexed to Pittsburgh. Part of the company was the Birmingham Coal Company Railroad, a 3 ft 2 in (965 mm) narrow gauge railroad that ran Along 21st street. Coal was transferred underground using a tailrope system from Spiketown to the mine entrance, and from there to the railroad on a gravity plane to the railroad. ^[3]

References

1. Chance, Henry Martyn (1884). Report of Progress... pp. 175–179. Retrieved 2008-09-08.
2. Geological Survey of Pennsylvania 1886. 1887. p. 176. Retrieved 2008-09-07.
3. Furman, H.V.; A.E. Swain (June 11, 1881). "Underground Haulage in the Coal Mines of Pennsylvania". The Mining and Engineering Journal. 31 (24): 400.