A COAL AND SAND WHARF

September 6, 1941

George S. Wert, General Superintendent of the Central Division of the PRR, announced that a contract had been awarded to the Ogle Construction Company of Chicago for the erection of a modern concrete, mechanically operated, coal station in Renovo. This structure was to replace to present wooden structure, which had been erected in 1907. This new coal wharf was to have two coal pockets. One pocket had a two hundred-ton capacity and the other a hundred-ton capacity, as well as, a bin capacity for sixty tons of wet sand and ten tons of dry sand. The structure permitted the unloading of both coal and sand directly from railroad cars and the ability to deliver both materials to locomotives, simultaneously, on two tracks. The hoisting capacity of the electrically operated machinery was between fifty and sixty tons an hour.