by Tonopah » Fri Jul 02, 2010 7:31 pm
Working from memory here - google be damned!
It wasn't the drop in coal supply and demand that rendered the baggers obsolete, it was the nature of the actual coal deposits themselves - from what I recall, the coal the mining company needed to get to was at such a depth that it required an incredible amount of topsoil excavation - it took nearly 20 years of excavation to expose the rich high quality coal deposits.
Krupp designed and built the first series of these monsters.Blue Marlin hauling the USS Cole

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