St. Nicholas Breaker - Mahanoy City, PA USA - Unoccupied Buildings, Shacks, and Cabins on Waymarking.com

St. Nicholas Breaker located just north of Mahanoy City, PA was constructed in 1931 and went into operation on Christmas Day 1932, hence St. Nicholas Breaker. Half of the village of Suffolk was relocated to create room for the largest breaker in the world. 20 miles of railroad was laid, 3,800 tons of steel and 10,000 cubic yards of cement was used. A mile and a half of conveyor lines, 25 miles of conduit, 26,241 square feet of rubber belting,118 miles of wire and 20 miles of pipe was installed. The breaker was split into 2 sides each operating independently producing 12,500 tons of coal a day. The coal once dumped, took just 12 minutes to pass through the entire breaker. The breaker closed down in 1963 after 30 years of production. Parts of the breaker have been demolished. It is not clear at this time if the whole thing will come down.

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