Tipple ruins at Crucible, PA have no provisions for loading trains, so they must have shipped all their coal by barge on the river.
The original Crucible tipple and headframe (Courtesy Coal and Coke Heritage Center, Penn State Fayette)
The old thickener at Crucible.
Crucible was operated by Crucible Coal Co., a subsidiary of Crucible Steel Co.
This old boiler house was probably
built in 1911, the year the mine opened.
The Crucible boiler house as it looked when the mine was active (Courtesy Coal and Coke Heritage Center, Penn State Fayette)
Another Crucible mine building, on the banks of the Monongahela River, this one
is probably a bathhouse or machine shop.
These large gob piles are across the river from the Crucible coal processing complex. The mine was closed in the early 1960s.
The Crucible patch is up on the hill above the tipple site. Over 1300 people
lived here in the late 1940s.
Larger 2 family company housing at Crucible, PA.
(Photo courtesy Mather Recovery Systems)