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A lifted Ford F-450 "rolling coal" (blowing large clouds of dark grey diesel smoke) Rolling coal (also spelled rollin' coal) is the practice of modifying a diesel engine to deliberately emit large amounts of black or grey diesel exhaust, containing soot and incompletely combusted diesel. Rolling coal is used as a form of anti-environmentalism ...
Principle of rope-shovel operation. [1]A power shovel, also known as a motor shovel, stripping shovel, front shovel, mining shovel or rope shovel, [2] is a bucket-equipped machine usually powered by steam, diesel fuel, gasoline or electricity and used for digging and loading earth or fragmented rock and for mineral extraction. [3]
Diesel-electric Co'Co' 3,680 kilowatts (4,935 hp) Most powerful narrow-gauge diesel locomotive in single frame [12] Little Joe: Milwaukee Road: EF-4 and EP-4 General Electric: 1950-80 Electric 2-D+D-2 247.5 tonnes (273 short tons) 337 kilonewtons (75,700 lbf) 3,811 kilowatts (5,110 hp) Maximum speed of 68 mph, used for freight and passenger. M-1
Coal Hopper Motherwell, Hurst Nelson: Dia No. 100 1945 Shildon [233] 1978–7106 LNER: DE 470818 Ballast Brake Van Wishaw, R. Y. Pickering: Dia No. 203 1948 Shildon [234] (available for transfer out of the collection 2021) [217] 1993–7121 BR: 900805 Well Trolley Derby, BR Dia No. 2/730, Lot No. 2029 1950 York [235] 1978–7110 BR: B 901601 ...
Coal was originally used in America in the 1300s by the Hopi Indians as a way to cook their food, warm themselves and fire their clay. Coal did not resurface in the United States until 1673.
Many steam shovels remained at work on the railways of developing nations until diesel engines supplanted them. Most have since been scrapped. Large, multi-ton mining shovels still use the cable-lift shovel arrangement. In the 1950s and 1960s, Marion Shovel built massive stripping shovels for coal operations in the Eastern US.
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The only Marion shovel that compared (in size and scope) to "The Captain" was the Marion 5960-M Power Shovel that worked at Peabody Coal Company's (Peabody Energy) River Queen Surface Mine in Central City, Kentucky. It was named the "Big Digger" and carried a 125-cubic-yard (96 m 3) bucket on a 215-foot-long (66 m) boom. It was Marion Power ...