The
Breaker, 1968.
This movie prop stands near the site of one of the three
original Council Ridge breakers. The exterior is similar
in appearance to the wooden breakers once found throughout
the anthracite region. Lump coal from the mine was cleaned
and sized in the breaker. Larger rollers with projecting
teeth broke the large lumps into marketable sizes. From
the rollers, the coal passed through a series of metal
screens that separated it into uniform sizes, each
for a different use. The sized anthracite traveled down
chutes manned by the breaker boys, who picked out pieces
of slate and rock. Cleaned and sorted coal was loaded
into railroad cars at the bottom of the breaker.
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