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Title: Jim Wood
Description: she sagged and broke in two. There was another Jim Wood constructed as the Grand Lake in 1866 at Pittsburgh. Her dimensions were:- 168 x 30.4 x 5.2 feet. Her name was changed to Jim Wood on September 24, 1881. She evidently went out of service prior to 1885.

Title: Anthracite vs. Fuel Oil
Description: Report regarding the values of anthracite versus fuel oil as a heating system.

Title: W. W. O'Neil
Description: 709,517 bushels or 28,331 tons. It is said that the first coal tow taken down the Ohio by steam was Daniel Bushwell in 1845 with a stern-wheel boat called the Walter Forward, carrying 3 boats of 2000 bushels each. Towboats now carry an average of 18 barges and flats containing 600,000 to 700,000 bushels or 20,000 tons. (This in 1890!) While enroute down the Ohio River in May, 1901, with 31 barges of

Title: Pittsburgh Harbor in 1904.
Date: 1904
Description: Boats and coal at Pittsburgh. Steamers include the Tom Dodsworth, Ed Roberts, Josh Cook, Pacific No. 2, Jim Wood, Iron Age.

Title: Pacific No. 2
Description: The Pacific No. 2 was built at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1893. Her dimensions were:- 176 x 32 x 5.0 feet. Tonnage, gross, 570; net, 416 tons. The Marmet Coal Company sold the machinery of the Lioness No. 2 to the Captains Joseph and Abe Gould who placed them in the Pacific No. 2. She was a coal towboat operating out of Pittsburg. On January 23, 1900, the Pacific ascending the Ohio River

Title: Patricia Barrett
Description: The Patricia Barrett is a sternwheel, steel hull towboat built in 1927 at Jeffersonville, Indiana, by the Howard Ship Yard and Dock Company. Her dimensions are :- 175 x 40 x 6.4 feet. She is a coal burner having four return flue boilers. Her Frisbie machinery develops 700 horse power. However, her indicated horse power is 900 at 5/8's cut off and, working strong, produces 1200 horse power. She is

Title: Boaz
Description: The Boaz was an old coal pusher built at Pittsburgh, Pa. in 1882. Her dimensions were:- 193 x 44.4 x 6.5 feet. Tonnage, gross and net, 623 tons. On February 20, 1894, when ascending the Ohio River she collided with the Belle McGowan at Green Bottom, West Virginia, descending with a tow of loaded coal barges. One coal barge in tow of the McGowan was sunk, loss $1500. The Boaz was damaged $150. She

Title: Sprague
Description: diameter and 14 feet long. The pilot house is 26 x 20 feet and houses a pilot wheel 13 1/2 feet in diameter. The Sprague was designed and built to tow coal from the Pittsburgh coal district down the Ohio and Mississippi River to Southern ports. When completed and placed in service Captains Henry B. Nye and Calvin Blazer (spoken affectionately as \"Poor Boy\" and \"Quaker Oats\") became her pilots. It was

Title: Resolute
Description: The Resolute was a old Pittsburgh towboat owned by the Juttes along with the Joseph B. Williams, Tom Dodsworth, Samual Clark, Valiant, Charlie Jutte, Rescue, W. C. Jutte, Defender and others. She was built in 1872 at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and her dimensions were:- 174 x 33 x 6.0 feet; tonnage, 426. While lying at the wharf, Portland, Ohio in 1872, she exploded her boilers; loss of property

Title: Josh Cook
Description: The Josh Cook was built at Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1876. Her dimensions were:- 165 x 30 x 5 feet. Tonnage, gross and net, 384 tons. Originally she was a Pittsburgh - New Orleans coal towboat. On August 14, 1898 while ascending the Ohio River with a tow of empty barges she collided with the ferry boat New Richmond descending in a heavy fog near Foster, Kentucky. The cabin of the Richmond and one barge

Title: Omar, Towboat operated by Ohio River Company
Description: The steamer Omar is a sternwheel , steel-hull towboat, built in 1936 at Neville Island, Pennsylvania by the Dravo Corporation. Her hull is 171.4 x 34.6 x 7 feet; Length over-all is 202 feet and she draws six feet, two inches of water. She was built for the Ohio River Company of Cincinnati, Ohio. She has five return flue boilers which are especially designed for river steamers. All five of the

Title: B&O Coal Pier Curtis Bay Baltimore, Maryland
Date: 1982, 1982-05-01

Title: Location Maps and Production Charts for The Several Coal Districts
Date: 1987-01, 1987-01

Title: Bell and Rope
Description: Bell and roping on the bow of a coal tow.

Title: Facilities of the Penn Central Transportation Company for Handling Coal and Ore at Tide Water, Great Lakes and Ohio River Ports
Date: 1975-01-20, 1975-01-20
Description: Book of maps and descriptions of coal and ore facilities on the Penn Central Railroad.

Title: Samuel Clarke
Description: The Samuel Clarke was built at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1870. Her dimensions were:- 175 x 33 x 6 feet. She was owned by the Juttes of which line Charles Jutte was the owner and operator. He was known as one of the Pittsburgh coal barons. Old timers say this boat had the best lines of any wooden towboat that ever ran out of Pittsburgh.

Title: Duquesne
Description: The Duquesne was built originally as the H. M. Hoxie in 1887 at Cincinnati, Ohio for the St. Louis and Mississippi Valley Transportation Company of St. Louis, Missouri. Her dimensions were:- 213.2 x 34.3 x 5.6 feet; 622 tons. She had 1420 horse power. In the early 1900s she was sold to the \"River Combine\" of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and towed coal south to New Orleans. On April 8, 1906, she

Title: World's Largest and Fastest Coal Shiploading Pier
Description: Booklet describing Norfolk and Western coal pier in Norfolk, VA.

Title: The Most Modern and Efficient Coal Pier in Existence
Description: Booklet describing the Lambert Point Coal Terminal pier.

Title: Coal City
Description: pieces was 1005 feet long and 182 feet wide. In December 1905, she arrived in Cincinnati with 20 coal boats of coal and struck the pier of the Chesapeak and Ohio Railroad bridge sinking 10 of the boats. Her horse power was 1000.

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