Coal Source
Coal Source
Can anybody recommend a source of good coal for our steamers in the phoenix area? I was planning on making a day trip next week for unrelated business but would like to pick up some much needed coal if it can be found. I have been using Pocahontas coal with great success but shipping kills me.
Thanks,
Todd
Thanks,
Todd
tdukes,
Aren't there coal mines on some of the Indian Reservations near Phoenix.
We saw an exposed coal seam on one reservation North East of Phoenix
while on a trip to Maricopa Live Steamers.
The Indians used it for fuel. It looked like good soft coal in their coal bins.
The reservation was on a Mesa, and East of the Grand Canyon
100 or so miles.
Can't remember the tribe name cause it's been a couple of years.
Kap
Aren't there coal mines on some of the Indian Reservations near Phoenix.
We saw an exposed coal seam on one reservation North East of Phoenix
while on a trip to Maricopa Live Steamers.
The Indians used it for fuel. It looked like good soft coal in their coal bins.
The reservation was on a Mesa, and East of the Grand Canyon
100 or so miles.
Can't remember the tribe name cause it's been a couple of years.
Kap
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There's a coal mine east of Cow Springs on 160. The power plant in Page, AZ. has their own little electrified railroad to haul the coal from that mine to the power plant. The last time I was out that way, I thought I saw a sign saying that they sold coal...
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Contact Maricopa Live Steamers, they sometimes have coal available.
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check your local hardware store
we sometimes use Calahan's(I think this is a bi chain)$29.90=50lbs
Just for the sake of sayin it Sam's has wood pellets
Ken
we sometimes use Calahan's(I think this is a bi chain)$29.90=50lbs
Just for the sake of sayin it Sam's has wood pellets
Ken
Re: coal
All the cost is in the shipping and packaging in the smaller sizes.Harold_V wrote:Gasp!Ken Rhodes wrote:$29.90=50lbs
You kidding?
Last time I checked coal prices (early 90's, in Utah), a ton of slack cost $55.
Harold
Someone could make good money ordering a full truckload or train car load to an area that is ill-supplied and sell it little by little like penn coal. Lots of requests for this after I started getting free buckets of coal from the local cement plant, which imports it by the train load from utah or ohio for their on-site coal fired power plant.
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At those prices, you could get a RR car full from Penn Keystone delivered and sell it for profit.
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Search "Coal Wanted" on this website and the post by 'highiron999' with co name phone numbers and costs all listed. It is from 2005
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Search "Coal Wanted" on this website and the post by 'highiron999' with co name phone numbers and costs all listed. It is from 2005
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