What coal did my friend give me
- 2001Sierra
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I have a good friend that went to coal country in PA. Along the railroad some where he found coal chunks about 3 by 3 and almost square. Well one day I dropped it and and it broke in thick layers maybe 1 or 1.5 inches thick. I though that was odd , so I hit it with a hammer and it broke into smaller chunks that I put onto my stoker fire. It immediately started burning as if almost wood. Yellow fire and plenty of smoke, one small piece about the size of 2 by 2 produced so much smoke you could see it out of the top of my chimney. The anthracite produces basically no visible smoke or anything except for a heat trace. What would the locomotives be burning when running throught anthracite country?
- BunkerdCaddis
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Pretty sure that sounds like some form of Bituminous, I burn some in my fireplace . See this thread Free Burn Some of it doesn't smell so nice others not so bad.
- coaledsweat
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Does it stink when it burns? Could be cannel coal. Post up a pic.