J&L 62 is still in Colorado as of a couple of years ago owned by the Birmingham family.

Our Brookville was originally built for Lone Star Cement Co. but I do not know at what plant it operated at. I do know that if you try to use portland cement in the sand boxes, it turns to concrete after 50 years!

We do have a handful of 24" gauge cars from Carpenter Steel in Reading, PA. Carpenter still uses a few of them in one of their rolling mills but all exterior trackage is now gone. Kovalchick in Burnham has 52 of them in a large pile. Occasionally I will pick one out to bring home with me.

This topic was today updated by a news source in Wilkes-Barre:

The Citizens' Voice: https://www.citizensvoice.com/lifestyle ... 62879.html

Wanamie 9, 0-4-0T (Vulcan Iron Works / Wilkes-Barre 2484 / 1915), 36-inch gauge

113 is CNJ, not C&J and is an 0-6-0 shifter. A big 0-6-0 shifter.

I might add the Wanamie operation included a line haul. There were several collieries close together, all feeding the huge Huber Breaker. The lokies pulled the mine jimmies from the collieries to the breaker without transloading the raw coal into RR gauge cars.

There's another lokie operation in the Anthracite Region, the Pioneer Tunnel and Steam Train, 42" gauge, in Ashland, Schuylkill County. Here they did transload the raw coal into RR cars to move to more distant consolidated breakers. RDG had special coal hoppers for online raw coal loading. CNJ 113 worked at P&R C&I's Locust Summit Breaker.

The Ashland operation includes both an electric (batteries now) mine motor pulling a tour inside the mine and an 0-4-0 steam lokie outside. The mine and outside operation are level with each other.

Phil Mulligan