Do you Remember This Building

This Coal Shed was part of the mill operation owned by Wallace Bradt of Cato. It was located at the south end of South Street on the west side of Rt. 370 next to the golf course on a spur of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. Railroad coal cars were unloaded into a pit on the right side of the building where an endless conveyor belt of buckets carried the coal to the top of the coal shed. Here the coal was distributed into one of several bins, probably sorted by the type of coal and/or size. The covered conveyor belt is shown on the right side of the building. Chutes at the bottom of the coal shed could be opened,  loading coal into trucks for local distribution. This photograph was taken in about 1970 by William Havens.

Advertisement from the Yearbook, The 1948 Harvester, Senior Yearbook, Cato-Meridian Central School, Cato, New York, p. 59.