Category:St. Nicholas coal breaker

Object location	40° 48′ 28.45″ N, 76° 10′ 44.06″ W	View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap	40.807902; -76.178905

• Since 1937, Blaschak Coal Corporation, in Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania has been at the forefront of the Anthracite industry, leading with technology, mining and land reclamation innovations. *These are photographs taken on a Sunday in July 2013 of the ruins of the St. Nicholas coal breakers, designed as two parallel processing plants that can operate independently or concurrently were built in 1930 to 1932 by the Reading Anthracite Company. The operation had two train yards with over 20 miles of trackage reported. The Blaschak Corporation assumed control of the world's largest coal breaker in 1952, and operated the huge building until 1972. The company continues to operate from a smaller more modern coal Processing plant on the same land less than a quarter mile away.
• See This page for pictures of the newer coal processing plant.
• The motivation behind this extensive set of photographs is to document a vanishing technology in sufficient detail that today's 3D modeling experts can at least make accurate v-scale models of this formerly critical feeder industry.

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