Archive for the ‘Industries’ Category
Kinney and Lila
I have created two new pages covering recent developments in Utah coal mining, and the railroads that serve them.
The Kinney No. 2 mine is being developed at the location of the former Union Pacific mine that dates back to the 1880s. The location is just north and east of the town of Scofield, in Pleasant Valley. The site is already served by Union Pacific’s Pleasant Valley Subdivision, and the mine owners have said that they plan on shipping coal by rail from their Kinney mine to West Coast and Gulf Coast ports for export to customers worldwide. Mining is expected to start in late 2013.
The Lila Canyon mine is a new coal mine located on the edge of the Book Cliffs, just south of Horse Canyon where Carbon County Railway served the Geneva Mine from 1942 to 1982. Small-scale mining started at Lila Canyon in 2010, with the coal being trucked to existing loadout facilities near Price, Utah. Large-scale mining is expected to start in 2014 after a longwall mining machine is installed in the Lila Canyon mine.
Shays at Desert Mound
I have rearranged and updated the pages for the iron ore mining, and iron and steel manufacturing pages.
This includes a new roster listing of the four locomotives used by Utah Iron Ore Corporation at its Desert Mound iron mine near Cedar City. Included in the roster is information about the two (possibly three) Shay locomotives used on the company’s 36-inch narrow gauge in-plant railroad.
Iron and Steel Index | Iron Mountain Locomotives
I have added the in-plant railroad mentioned above to the map of Iron Mountain railroads.
As a side note, I have also cleaned up the page for the Wellington Coal Wash plant located south of Price, Utah.
