Cherry Coal Mine Disaster

Model Pics Set Two
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THE 91st Anniversary Photos includes 3 photos
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Night Falls on the St. Paul mine in Cherry IL.

This time exposure of the model was taken after sunset of course. I put some lights inside the boilerhouse and tipple to bring it to life. The boiler house on your left was used to supply steam power to work the mine machinery such as the cages. There were six massive tubular boilers in this building. The Tipple as seen on the right was the main structure on the site. The coal brought from the mine below was brought up through the mainshaft and rose into the tipple upon the cages. The pitcars or mine cars that carried the coal were pushed from here to a designated spot in the tipple and then were"tipped" to a lower level of the structure where the coal was rinsed and separated. The coal was then dumped into the railroad coal cars underneath the massive tipple. Remember too, that all the slag, dirt, and rock was brought up this way too, but was sent to the slag dump piles which to this day are a landmark for Cherry IL.

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This B&W photo is of the model too!
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Looking Northeast near the tipple.

BLACK AND WHITE TIPPLE MODEL 

This B&W picture is of the Model Tipple I built for the 90th anniversary (1999) of the mine disaster.

I had never built a more difficult model than this one. It is entirely scratchbuilt and had taken me about eight months to complete. It was extremely tedious work and while building it I thought to myself, " What have I gotten myself into now?" Each beam and girder was individually placed. To duplicate the actual Tipple seen in the numerous photographs I had to use a magnifying glass to study the structure thoroughly. If I did, then I knew when the time came to take pictures of the model set up outdoors, it would look highly realistic! The tallest section of the Tipple is called the headframe. Directly below this is the mainshaft with a depth of approx. 500ft! The enginehouse which pulled the cages up and down is seen at lower right.

The St. Paul Coal Office was a Milwaukee Orange.
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This is the third and final picture in set two. What does set three look like?

Cherry Mine office

Ray Tutaj out in the country for the all day shoot
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From 5:am til 10:pm used up about 32 rolls of film, so i have got alot of dramatic pictures.