Tram: alternatives and connections

A hard, compact variety of mineral coal, of high luster, differing from bituminous coal in containing little or no bitumen, in consequ…

An isolated or circumscribed formation, particularly where the strata dip inward, on all sides, toward a center; -- especially applied…

A four-wheeled truck, having a certain amount of play around a vertical axis, used to support in part a locomotive on a railway track.

In mining, a rich mine or vein of silver or gold; hence, anything which is a mine of wealth or yields a large income.

A wheeled vehicle carrying a fixed burden, as a gun carriage.

Adhesive; -- said of a roof in a mine to which coal clings.

Pertaining to, or resembling, coal; containing coal; of the nature of coal.

One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine.

The place where coal is dug; a coal mine, and the buildings, etc., belonging to it.

A contrivance for carrying objects from place to place; esp., one for conveying grain, coal, etc., -- as a spiral or screw turning in…

A wooden frame, sled, or low-wheeled wagon, to convey coal or ore in the mines.

A small truck or sledge used in coal mines.

A light one-horse carriage, commonly two-wheeled, patterned after a cart. The original dogcarts used in England by sportsmen had a box…

Consisting of four horses controlled by one person; as, a four-in-hand team; drawn by four horses driven by one person; as, a four-in-…

An apparatus for detecting the presence of any dangerous gas, from a gas leak in a coal mine or a dwelling house.

A car on low wheels, in which coal is drawn in the mine and hoisted out of the pit.

An inclined road in a coal mine, on which loaded cars descend by gravity, drawing up empty ones.

A barge or lighter, used on the Type for carrying coal from Newcastle; also, a barge load of coal, twenty-one tons, four cwt.