Tipple at Blue Heron camp

Tipple at "Blue Heron" camp, Stearns, Kentucky. A coal tipple separated the various sizes of coal coming from the mine in coal cars. These cars opened at the bottoms to dump coal into a main 120-ton hopper leading to a 76-foot conveyor belt called an "apron feeder."

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