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.

Shay Motive Power

Twin Seams Mining Company #5

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 / Apr 1960 / collection

Twin Seams Mining Company #8

Kellerman, Al / Apr 1960 / collection

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

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

Kellerman, Al / Sep 1959 / collection

Lagniappe

Kellerman, Al / Oct 1960 / JCH