SNOW SHOE — When Jerry Hefferan, president of the Snow Shoe Lions Club and a former miner, saw the condition of the coal car at the Mountaintop Area’s David House Heritage Museum, he knew he ...
The empty coal gondola being pushed in reverse struck the trolley car that tipped onto its side and pushed across Wyoming Avenue. ‘The trolley car stopped at the crossing and the conductor went ...
Colstrip Units 3 and 4 consumed around 222 railroad carloads of coal a day to generate 1.4 gigawatts of electricity. Rectangular coal cars and cylindrical oil tankers rumble through Billings, carrying ...
The coal car, which was donated for the 1996 opening of the museum by the late William Swancer who used it in his mines in Clarence, holds significant historical value. Hefferan said, “During ...