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Twin Seams Mining Company
The Twin Seams 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.
Twin Seams Mining Company #5
Lima 3 truck Shay (1923) / Kellerman, Al / Oct 1960 / JCH
Twin Seams 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 Seams Mining Company, 1958
scrapped at Fox, Al in 1963
Kellerman, Al / Oct 1960 / JCH
Kellerman, Al / Oct 1960 / JCH
Kellerman, Al / Oct 1960 / JCH
Kellerman, Al / Oct 1960 / JCH
Twin Seams Mining Company #8
Lima 3 truck Shay (1922) / Kellerman, Al / Oct 1960 / JCH
Twin Seams 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 Seams Mining Company, 1949
scrapped at Kellerman, Al in 1963
Kellerman, Al / Oct 1960 / JCH
Twin Seams Mining Company #17
Lima 3 truck Shay (1917) / Kellerman, Al / Oct 1960 / JCH
Twin Seams 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 Seams Mining Company, 1947
scrapped at Kellerman, Al in 1963
Kellerman, Al / Oct 1960 / JCH