So they sang a song from the Pennsylvania coal mines that began: Me, and Mike, ve vork in mine.
On the return trip, Pennsylvania coal was hauled north to Conneaut Harbor.
Its Eastern Coal Docks on Raritan Bay transferred Pennsylvania coal and other goods from trains to barges for distribution all along the East Coast.
Units 1 and 2 burned local Pennsylvania coal (that is cleaned on site in a coal cleaning plant) or Western Pennsylvania Pittsburgh seam coal.
Energy for industry in western New York at this time came from Pennsylvania coal, and the existing railroads were the sole means of getting it to the Rochester area.
In 1826, when the Morris Canal was built to take Pennsylvania coal to New York City, it passed through Dover, spurring an industrial boom along its banks.
In the 1820s, George P. Macculloch envisioned a canal that would transport Pennsylvania coal to New York City.
The former Delaware and Hudson Canal brought Pennsylvania coal to Kingston on the Hudson.
Postbellum cottagers were the new millionaires whose wealth came from Pennsylvania coal, the Comstock Lode, the New York Central.
This is why Pittsburgh is near the Pennsylvania coal fields, and not far from the iron-ore deposits further west.