Menards continues to add to their line of industrial structures. A little more than a year ago, they introduced Sooty's Coal Tipple, and have now added an O gauge Sooty's Mine Shaft to the lineup.

When the carts arrived at the upper level of the Tipple, the coal was dumped into a chute by tipping the mine carts over – hence the name “tipple.” The coal passed down the chute and was ...

Finding it impossible to agree to the United Mine Worker's terms, most of the operators of the rail mines (mines which deliver coal directly to a railroad loading station or tipple) sub-leased ...