Pennsylvania Coal Docks

Price: $9.95
  

Stock #: 708553
Type: Postcard
Era: Linen
City: Sandusky
State: Ohio (OH)
County: Erie
Publisher: E.B. Ackley
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)

Additional Details:
New Pennsylvania $5,000,000 Electrically Operated Coal Loader #3. This loader can handle 60 - 90 ton Cars per Hour or a Car per Minute. The new #3 electrically operated coal loader is located on the north end of a new pier extending 4,500 feet into Sandusky Bay. Completed and put in operation in August 1939. Coal dumpers on docks #1 and #2 which have been in operation for a number of years are steam operated. Sandusky is second on the Great Lakes in volume of coal shipped. 39,000,000 tons of coal shipped on an average per season from this port.

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